[Tex/LaTex] How to make Times-Roman appear instead of NimbusRomNo9L-Regu in the PDF document properties in LaTeX

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When we generate a simple document in LaTeX using the times package (\usepakage{times} @ 9pt), the resultant PDF will contain NimbusRomNo9L-Regu instead of Times-Roman. (I know, this is because, LaTeX is renaming Times to Nimbus for embedding the font in PDF. Correct me if I am wrong.)

We can make Times-Roman to appear in the PDF (instead of NimbusRomNo9L-Regu) by adding some mapping in dvips configuration file (config.ps or config.pdf). How do we do this. Thus generated PS file when distilled using Adobe Distiller will show Times-Roman instead of NimbusRomNo9L-Regu.

I am searching the internet resources for a couple of days to find a suitable explanation for this. But I did not get a suitable answer. I hope somebody in this list can help me in fixing the problem.

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LaTeX is not renaming the font, but using NimbusRoman because that font has been set up to be used as TimesRoman. Iff you had purchased a proper TimesRoman font (whatever that is exactly) and instructed your TeX system to use that, PDFs generated from that system would display its font name.

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Get rid of the instruction
```
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
```
Times Roman is a font with serifs. What good is supposed to come from selecting a sans-serif font as the main text font?

Replace the instruction

\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ptm}

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- Still on the \geometry directive: If all four margins are supposed to be equal to 25mm, it suffices to provide the option margin=25mm.
- No point loading the graphicx package twice, is there?

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