Embed fonts in PDF

ROOT
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Is there a way to embed fonts in a PDF generated by ROOT? I don’t mean to just select a font, but to actually embed it in the PDF file so it looks the same regardless of client.

Thanks.

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After writing your PDF, try using ghostscript with a command like this:

gs -o file2.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dEmbedAllFonts=true -sFONTPATH=\"/usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/Font\" file.pdf

Check with:

pdffonts file.pdf | grep 'Type'

Alternatively, you could open the pdf file with inkscape and export it as pdf and check the option convert texts to paths.

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Yes, I’ve been following the Inkscape approach for a while now and the gs command is useful too. But I would have preferred for ROOT to handle that for me. It kinda goes against the LaTeX’s (even Adobe’s) standard by not having the fonts embedded by default. So I was thinking maybe I’m missing an option or something…

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There is no option to embed the fonts is a ROOT PDF file. This choice was made to keep the files small.