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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-pdf-fig-chars.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-pdf-fig-chars.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8d7487ad871 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-pdf-fig-chars.html @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label pdf-fig-chars</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Characters disappear from figures in PDFTeX</h3> +<p/>You have a PDF figure, which you want to use in your +PDFLaTeX document. When you compile the document, PDFTeX +complains about “missing glyphs”, and some (or all) of the labelling +text or symbols in the original figure is no longer visible. +<p/>What has happened is: +<ol> +<li> Your figure file (say <i>fig.pdf</i>) has a font <i>font.pfb</i> + embedded in it. +<li> PDFTeX notes that it has <i>font.pfb</i> on disc, and loads + that in place of the copy in <i>fig.pdf</i>. +<li> It turns out that the copy in <i>fig.pdf</i> has glyphs that + aren’t in <i>font.pfb</i> on disc, so that you get errors while + compiling and you see that characters are missing when you view the + output. (PDFTeX can’t know that the fonts are different, since + they have the same name.) +</ol> +Which is all very undesirable. +<p/>PDFTeX does this to keep file sizes down: suppose you have a +document that loads figures <i>fig1.pdf</i> and <i>fig2.pdf</i>; both +of those use font <i>font.pfb</i>. If PDFTeX takes no action, +there will be <em>two</em> copies of <i>font.pfb</i> in the output. +(If your document also uses the font, there could be three copies.) +<p/>A real case is the URW font <i>NimbusRomNo9L-Regu</i> (a clone +of Times Roman), which is available in a version with Cyrillic +letters, while the version in TeX distributions doesn’t have those +letters. Both versions, as distributed, have the same name. +<p/>The simple (“quick and dirty”) solution is to add the command +<blockquote> + <code>\</code><code>pdfinclusioncopyfonts</code><code>=1</code> +</blockquote><p> +to the preamble of your document. +<p/>The “real” solution is that one or other font should be renamed. In +either case, this would require that you reconfigure some program’s +(TeX’s or your drawing package’s) font tables — inevitably a +tiresome job. +<p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=pdf-fig-chars">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=pdf-fig-chars</a> +</body> |