Re: [MiKTeX] Problems with fonts in eps files
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From: Alan R. <ri...@ec...> - 2007-03-24 19:07:28
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George N. White III wrote: > On 3/24/07, Johan Söderström <joh...@gm...> wrote: > >> Dear MiKTeX experts! >> >> I am sorry for making my first appearance on this list with a silly >> question, but I have a serious deadline for my thesis and cannot solve this >> problem myself... >> >> I have several figures generated as .eps files. The files are saved so that >> the encoding for the text is not saved in the file (for standard fonts) I >> have many many files with Times-Roman and Times-Bold encoding. > > Many files with .eps extensions have problems, including some created > by popular and expensive commercial packages. If you can render the > file (e.g., using gsview) there is a good chance you can convert it to > pdf that can be used with pdflatex in place of the ".eps" files. I think > MikTeX includes the ps2pdf scripts from ghostscript, but there are > plenty of alternatives if you can't get those to run. > > If you have access to Inkscape or a recent version of Adobe > Illustrator or similar package, you may be able to load the > problematic ".eps" files, clean up fonts, etc. and save as proper .eps > or .pdf. Alternatively, if you have Ghostscript installed you can try eps2eps. It's a rather redundant-seeming script that converts from .eps to .eps, but it often has the effect of rewriting malformed Postscript correctly and fixing problematic files. Incidentally, I have had trouble with Acrobat Distiller and non-embedded system fonts when converting .ps files to .pdf. I'm not really all that keen on using Distiller, so I never followed up and figured out what the problem was, but if you're using Distiller you might trying using Ghostscript's ps2pdf script instead. >> I am using TeXnicCenter as an editor and compiling in the editor (Ctrl+F7). >> I am using MiKTeX as distribution - it seems like the editor is calling >> pdfetex (version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 MiKTeX 2.5) when creating the pdf file >> (I first create a ps file, then a pdf - directly creating a pdf does not >> work for some reason). > > Pdftex in pdf output mode can't handle .eps files directly. Just to be clear, whenever you run TeX, LaTeX, pdfTeX, or pdfLaTeX, MiKTeX uses pdfeTeX as the typesetting engine. The commands it understands depends on the "mode" in which it operates and, to be simple about it, the mode is determined by the command you type on the command line (or in this case, the one that TeXnicCenter types for you). Thus, no matter which flavor of TeX you run, MiKTeX will always report that it is using pdfeTeX. Alan |