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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Lyx pdf & Booksurge Self publishing
From:       Charles de Miramon <cmiramon () kde-france ! org>
Date:       2008-10-20 9:00:18
Message-ID: gdhhb2$f32$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Jonathan Kroner wrote:

> Does Booksurge accept a Lyx generated pdf, or must it be further processed
> through acrobat?
> 
>  1.   If you have self published through Booksurge, please answer whether
> Booksurge accepts LyX generated pdfs.
> 
> I will soon be self-publishing a book, preferably through Booksurge.
> Booksurge accepts PDF files, but only if they meet Booksurge
> specifications. However, they do not explain their specifications.
> Instead, they only explain the steps to save/print the PDF from various
> versions of adobe acrobat.
> 
> In order to find out whether my pdf will meet their requirements they
> require full payment of their up-front fee. They will not provide any
> additional assistance in determining whether a LyX pdf meets their
> requirements.
> 
> 
> 2.   Most of their specifications do not apply to me since this will be a
> black-and-white, no images, text only book. But one area is of more
> concern. They instruct:
>  *"Under the fonts tab*
> **
> *     Deselect the "subset embedded fonts" option.*
> **
> *     Select ALL of the fonts under Font Source and add them to Always
> Embed."*
> 
> These instructions are found here for acrobat version 8
>  http://www.booksurgepages.com/Downloads/TwoStepstoPDFv8.pdf
> 
>  In my Lyx generated PDF document under "Properties" the "Fonts" tab shows
>  a
> long list of fonts and following each font is written:    "(embedded
> subset)   type 1, encoding: custom."
> 
> Booksurge claims they could not answer whether "(embedded subset)   type
> 1,
> encoding: custom"  meets their requirements.  Any opinions?
> 
> Thank you
>  Jonathan Kroner
>  LyX 1.6.0rc3, pdflatex, Windows Vista home premium

Booksurge wants you to emded all fonts in your pdf. Sometimes, the 14 basic
fonts are not embed. You can see what fonts are embed in a pdf file with
Acrobat Reader, KPDF or the command line program pdfinfo

If you produce your pdf with pdflatex, the option to look is the
dvipdfmDownloadBase14 which is updmap.cfg

If you produce you pdf with xetex, there is a -E option for xdvipdfmx that
will try to embed all fonts.

Cheers,
Charles


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