[gs-devel] different font name shown in PDF viewer

[Ken Sharp]

At 12:02 14/10/2010 -0400, Mark DeVries wrote:


>I have a PS file that uses ArialUnicodeMS, a huge font with >50K 
>characters.  The font is TrueType, and I convert it to Type 42 with Eddie 
>Kohler's ttftotype42.  Ghostscript PDF Writer nicely makes a good PDF from 
>that, but the Properties > Fonts dialog in a PDF viewer (Adobe or Foxit) 
>shows only ArialMT, not ArialUnicodeMS.  There is no ArialMT in the file.
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>Any idea why the viewer doesn't report ArialUnicodeMS instead?

3 possibilities:

1) When converting to type42, the wrong font was used
2) The font is not embedded, and Acrobat and Foxit are using the system Arial
3) You have a copy of Arial MT installed in GS as a CIDFont, and GS used 
that in preference to the converted type 42.

Without seeing the PDF and original PS I can't suggest anything else.

             Ken