For a publisher I have to generate a pdf file which does not contain any Type3 fonts.
Until now I thought that using pdflatex on current LaTeX distributions should be enough to get a pdf file without any Type3 fonts, but for the current document this is not true:
$ pdffonts paper.pdf
name type emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
ZFUCHW+NimbusRomNo9L-Medi Type 1 yes yes no 41 0
VNQOQC+NimbusRomNo9L-Regu Type 1 yes yes no 42 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 43 0
NXAFJF+NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal Type 1 yes yes no 46 0
CBNMRR+NimbusRomNo9L-MediItal Type 1 yes yes no 48 0
MNSAJN+NimbusRomNo9L-Regu-Slant_167 Type 1 yes yes no 52 0
FJTKHV+CMSY7 Type 1 yes yes no 53 0
VVITQE+CMMI9 Type 1 yes yes no 54 0
CHSHRJ+CMR9 Type 1 yes yes no 56 0
EAPUQB+CMR6 Type 1 yes yes no 57 0
KBHVYI+CMMI6 Type 1 yes yes no 58 0
EHULJT+CMTI9 Type 1 yes yes no 59 0
JLLCEK+CMSY9 Type 1 yes yes no 61 0
YEIEPQ+CMEX9 Type 1 yes yes no 64 0
DFKMIY+CMSY8 Type 1 yes yes no 84 0
NEDAGG+CMSY6 Type 1 yes yes no 87 0
QDTWCG+MSBM10 Type 1 yes yes no 127 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 198 0
OKAOPP+CMMI8 Type 1 yes yes no 199 0
TIGOKK+CMR8 Type 1 yes yes no 200 0
GWSFMB+CMTI8 Type 1 yes yes no 201 0
[none] Type 3 yes no no 397 0
I am surprised that all the Type3 fonts haven't a real name.
The document uses the sigplanconf documentclass. For figures only the tikz and listings packages are used (no graphicx package is used, i.e. no \includegraphics is used and no postscript files are embedded).
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 with TeX Live:
$ pdflatex --version
pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
I have found an ACM FAQ about Type1 fonts, but it seems to be outdated and the suggested method still yield pdf files with Type3 fonts.
pk fonts: Looking for pk fonts in the doc.log find I found this ouput:
75i,27n,56p,866b,2711s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s
</mnt/max/.texmf-var/fonts/pk/ljfour/jknappen/ec/ectt0800.600pk> </mnt/max/.texmf-var/fonts
/pk/ljfour/jknappen/ec/ectt0900.600pk>{/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/enc/dvips/base/8r.enc}
</mnt/max/.texmf-var/fonts/pk/ljfour/jknappen/ec/ecss0900.600pk>
What could be reasons for this? Is some font package missing? Or has it something to do with tikz?
Best Answer
Look at the end of the log-file of pdflatex. It will tell you which fonts are included and which are bitmap (pk) fonts.