[R] Fwd: eps file with embedded font

[Simone Gabbriellini]

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From: Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>
Date: 2009/9/4
Subject: Re: [R] eps file with embedded font
To: Simone Gabbriellini <simone.gabbriellini at gmail.com>


On 09/04/09 17:16, Simone Gabbriellini wrote:
> thanks Jonathan,
>
> I was wondering about the difference between your second option and
> the Ted one: isn't it the same thing?

I deleted that message, but I think it was suggesting that you guess.
The ghostscript command does it automatically by looking at the white
space, so as to make the tightest possible bounding box.

Jon

> regards,
> Simone
>
> 2009/9/4 Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>:
> > A couple of other ideas about embedding fonts and setting bounding
> > boxes.  These all work on Linux, so in theory they should also work on
> > OS X, although I have no idea how.
> >
> > 1. For setting bounding boxes, you can use gv, which is a PostScript
> > viewer.  As you move the pointer around, you can see the numbers in a
> > side panel.
> >
> > 2. Another way to do it is to set them automatically using ghostscript.
> > (This is based on a suggested made by Brian Ripley.)  Here is a script
> > that does this for me:
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > cat $1 | sed -r -e "s/BoundingBox:[\ ]+[0-9]+[\ ]+[0-9]+[\ ]+[0-9]+[\ ]+[0-9]+/`gs
> -sDEVICE=bbox -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q`/" > temp.eps
> > gs -sDEVICE=bbox -sNOPAUSE -q $1 $showpage -c quit 2> bb.out
> > sed -e"1 r bb.out" temp.eps > $1
> > /bin/rm bb.out
> > /bin/rm temp.eps
> >
> > The idea is to remove the bounding box that exists and replace it.
> > You run it by saying
> > bbox myfile.eps
> > (It doesn't matter if it is .ps instead of eps at this point.)
> >
> > 3. Finally, there is a pdf viewer called xpdf, which will embed fonts
> > by default if you use it to print to a file.  (I'm not sure it still
> > does this by default, but there is an option for it.)  So first
> > convert to pdf, then read with xpdf, then print to file (and then, if
> > necessary, convert back to pdf again).  This is what I did for my last
> > book; even though I used standard PostScript fonts, the publisher
> > insisted that they all be embedded.
> >
> > Xpdf comes with a thing called pdffonts that will list the fonts in a
> > pdf file and tell you whether they are embedded.
> >
> > Jon
> > --
> > Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
> > Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
> >

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Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)