Hello, I know this thing has come up before, but looking in the archives of this list (and some others) I couldn't really find an answer... So here I go. I have SuSE linux 8.2, with KDE upgraded to 3.2.2 gs --version gives 7.05.6 I have tons of truetype fonts installed. They came from my original Windows instal (my system is dual boot) and most of them are from Corel Draw 7.0 so I think they are good quality. When I produce a document using KWord and print it to PDF, my fonts are embedded as Type 3. I also loose the names. I used Arial and Times New Roman (I though I would be safe with those!) and some Luxi Sans (regular and italic), but in my document the fonts are embedded as "font A - Type 3 and font B - Type 3). I included the fonts using KDE Control Center and all the fonts show up nicely on screen, etc. When I look in the font directories I see that Fontmap files were created in all directories, including the /truetype directory. I have been reading this webpage: http://www.geocities.com/mobrien_12/pdflinux.htm And then, this morning I did someadditional tests. I found that I didn't seem to have GS_FONTPATH set, so I added that to the .bashrc file in my home dir and tried again cramming about 10 fonts in one documents, 8 TT and 2 Type 1 (the Luxi's). Again in my PDF I only see font A and B, both Type 3. On a windows machine, using Acrobat Reader 6, the document looks ok, actually the two type 3's look worse than the 'invisible' fonts. Although when I zoom in very close, I can see the characteristic 'staircase' look at the diagonals. I just had another look at the one directory that gs surely has to know about: /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts (although I get this output... kdevelop@linux:~/usr/bin> echo $GS_FONTPATH /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype) There are surely some fonts in that directory, a whole family of 'Nimbus' fonts. And they are visible in KWord too, although a bit hidden in between the 800 or so other fonts... New test and now it works: In document properties I get NimbusRomL9-Regular Type1 Built-in Embedded Subset Type1, The other fonts are still invisible or marked font A, etc. So I have a lot of questions here. I really want to understand this. Perhaps I don't understand this concept of embedding? I often get PDF documents with embedded (subsets of) TT fonts. These are probably made by Acrobat distiller or some other pdf generator. Can the same result be obtained by KPrinter/gs? Or should I walk the other path of converting my TT fonts to Type 1. On second thoughts there must be a problem somewhere because the Type 1 fonts that I have in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 are not treated as they should be, as the fonts in /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts I have also looked in each font directory that I have and there is a Fontmap file in each of these. So that is all the info for the moment. If you need more, just give me a shout :) Regards and thanks Marc __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.