Embedded fonts not printing

Embedded fonts not printing

I created a PDF using pdflatex from TeX Live 2007 under Ubuntu Hardy. 
This displays correctly in xpdf and Acrobat Reader, and prints correctly 
on my HPLJ5MP, and also prints and displays correctly on several other 
users' Windows systems with an assortment of printers.

When I copy the file (via USB stick) to my Mac and open it in Preview, 
it displays correctly, but when I print it (to a Lexmark X75) the fonts 
(principally Charter and Bitstream Zurich and Bernhard) get substituted 
with some kind of generic sans-serif which looks like Helvetica Narrow.

Has anyone else had this kind of problem? Why should an apparently 
perfectly normal PDF that Preview displays correctly get fonts 
substituted at print time?

///Peter

$ pdffonts poster.pdf
name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
QGYACF+BernhardModernBT-Bold         Type 1            yes yes no      12  0
TOWTOD+BernhardModernBT-Roman        Type 1            yes yes no      13  0
JAOIBE+CharterBT-Roman               Type 1            yes yes no      14  0
DLZSNI+SFTT1440                      Type 1            yes yes no      15  0
RHQWPT+CharterBT-Italic              Type 1            yes yes no      16  0
KVOGKI+ZurichBT-Bold                 Type 1            yes yes no      17  0
ZZEWFV+CMSY10                        Type 1            yes yes no      18  0
TLCKMX+SFTT0800                      Type 1            yes yes no      19  0
TJJXGD+ZurichBT-Roman                Type 1            yes yes no      20  0
KDHYYP+ZurichBT-Italic               Type 1            yes yes no      21  0
LZRBUI+SFTT1200                      Type 1            yes yes no      22  0
YCUWFG+MarVoSym                      Type 1            yes yes no      23  0
VQDYSQ+NimbusSanL-Bold               Type 1            yes yes no      24  0
TQVVDV+NimbusSanL-Regu               Type 1            yes yes no      25  0

Re: Embedded fonts not printing [update]

As a further test, I installed Adobe Reader on the Mac and used that.

The fonts also get substituted, but -- weirdly -- an all-caps title in 
Bernhard gets printed in Helvetica Narrow, but a caps-and-lower-case 
subtitle in Bernhard *in the same line* gets substituted with TNR :-) 
The Charter gets substituted with TNR throughout.

///Peter

Embedded fonts not printing

I created a PDF using pdflatex from TeX Live 2007 under Ubuntu Hardy. 
This displays correctly in xpdf and Acrobat Reader, and prints correctly 
on my HPLJ5MP, and also prints and displays correctly on several other 
users' Windows systems with an assortment of printers.

When I copy the file (via USB stick) to my Mac and open it in Preview, 
it displays correctly, but when I print it (to a Lexmark X75) the fonts 
(principally Charter and Bitstream Zurich and Bernhard) get substituted 
with some kind of generic sans-serif which looks like Helvetica Narrow.

Has anyone else had this kind of problem? Why should an apparently 
perfectly normal PDF that Preview displays correctly get fonts 
substituted at print time?

///Peter

$ pdffonts poster.pdf
name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
QGYACF+BernhardModernBT-Bold         Type 1            yes yes no      12  0
TOWTOD+BernhardModernBT-Roman        Type 1            yes yes no      13  0
JAOIBE+CharterBT-Roman               Type 1            yes yes no      14  0
DLZSNI+SFTT1440                      Type 1            yes yes no      15  0
RHQWPT+CharterBT-Italic              Type 1            yes yes no      16  0
KVOGKI+ZurichBT-Bold                 Type 1            yes yes no      17  0
ZZEWFV+CMSY10                        Type 1            yes yes no      18  0
TLCKMX+SFTT0800                      Type 1            yes yes no      19  0
TJJXGD+ZurichBT-Roman                Type 1            yes yes no      20  0
KDHYYP+ZurichBT-Italic               Type 1            yes yes no      21  0
LZRBUI+SFTT1200                      Type 1            yes yes no      22  0
YCUWFG+MarVoSym                      Type 1            yes yes no      23  0
VQDYSQ+NimbusSanL-Bold               Type 1            yes yes no      24  0
TQVVDV+NimbusSanL-Regu               Type 1            yes yes no      25  0

Re: Embedded fonts not printing [update]

As a further test, I installed Adobe Reader on the Mac and used that.

The fonts also get substituted, but -- weirdly -- an all-caps title in 
Bernhard gets printed in Helvetica Narrow, but a caps-and-lower-case 
subtitle in Bernhard *in the same line* gets substituted with TNR :-) 
The Charter gets substituted with TNR throughout.

///Peter