Re: [Gnuplot-info] pdfcairo or pdf output font fails with Adobe Illustrator

[James C. <clo...@jh...>]

>>>>> "AC" == Andres Cimmarusti <aci...@gm...> writes:

AC> I produce the plots on a GNU/Linux system, specifically Debian
AC> testing, using either the pdfcairo or pdf terminals. I set fonts
AC> to be Arial.

Do you have Arial installed?  You will have had to have done it
explicitly; Debian would not include that family.

Does the pdf embed the fonts?  pdffonts (from poppler or xpdf),
mupdfinfo (from mupdf) are good tools to confirm that.

Can you provide an example pdf from each terminal?

Because Arial is so prevalent, default installs of fontconfig include
configuration code to substitute other fonts should arial be unavailable.

It looks like you end up with DejaVu Sans and/or Bitstream Vera Sans in
the pdf files, but subset (only the glyphs actually used are included;
that is normal for pdf files).  That is why Illusrator complains.

Your alternate workflow probably doesn't embed fonts, just names.

-JimC
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