[Tex/LaTex] Helvetica-font-not-embedded

embeddingfontsMATLABpdf

I am writing a book using times font. It has MATLAB codes. I have used the listing package for generating matlab code in latex.
For the remaining text I am using times package.
But while trying to publish the book I am getting the error helvetica package not embedded. I do not want to use helvetica font as the publisher has a problem with that font. Can someone explain what is font embedding and how can I remove the Helvetica font.

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The problem may not be the Matlab code listings, but the figures from Matlab (and exported in EPS format) that you may be included in your document. When Matlab generate the EPS file, it does not embed the font used for the text labels of the graph (title, ticks, legend,...) In theory, you can instruct to Latexpdf, or latex+dvips+ps2pdf, to embed all fonts, but my experience is that the fonts used in included graphs usually are not embedded.

The best option is embedding the fonts in each figure, as is pointed here:

ps2pdf13 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress fig_non_embedded.pdf fig_embedded.pdf

If the document cannot be generated again, this response can help to fix the entire document:

How do I embed fonts in an existing PDF?

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[Tex/LaTex] Font is not embedded

that is the default that all fonts are embedded:

voss@shania:~> pdffonts Test.pdf
name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
EOEABK+SFRM1000                      Type 1            yes yes no       4  0
YPYAQC+NimbusRomNo9L-Medi            Type 1            yes yes no       5  0
RIFXKL+NimbusSanL-Regu               Type 1            yes yes no       6  0
ROKJSN+StandardSymL                  Type 1            yes yes no       7  0

Example run with pdflatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
foo 
{\fontfamily{ptm}\fontseries{b}\selectfont Times}, 
\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont Hevetica
\fontencoding{U}\fontfamily{psy}\selectfont ABCDEFGH

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Merging duplicate embedded fonts

The program pdfTeX only merges fonts in the formats Type 1 (or Type 1C). image1.pdf and image2.pdf contains TrueType fonts. From the sources of pdfTeX, pdftoepdf.cc:

static void copyFont(char *tag, Object * fontRef)
{
    ...
    // Only handle included Type1 (and Type1C) fonts; anything else will be copied.
    // Type1C fonts are replaced by Type1 fonts, if REPLACE_TYPE1C is true.
    ...
}

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