From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020327 Description of problem: When pdfTeX embeds Type 1 fonts into the PDF documents it creates, it does so in a manner that, while theoretically allowable under the Type 1 spec, is "broken" according to the friendly folks at Adobe. The theoretical nature of this breakage has become a physical reality in Adobe's revised Acrobat products. Using Acrobat Reader 5 to print a pdfTex-created document that contains embedded Type1 fonts, for example, results in page barf when printed on a Postscript printer. (Luckily, a patch appeared a few months ago on the pdftex mailing list, and it solves the problems.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a latex document that uses a Postscript font that is not one of the standard "Adobe 13" built into PDF-reading products. Use, for example, Utopia, which comes with Red Hat Linux. 2. Create a PDF file from the document via pdflatex. 3. Open the document with Acrobat Reader 5 and print it to a Postscript printer. 4. Marvel at the output's barf-like nature. Actual Results: Pages contain a horribly barf-like combination of type drawn from the "Adobe 13" fonts. Not Utopia. Expected Results: Pages, beautifully typeset in Utopia, reflect photons lovingly into the eyes of the beholder. Additional info: Tom Kacvinsky posted a patch for this problem to the pdftex mailing list on 20 June 2001. http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2001-June/001225.html It's a long thread. You'll have to back up a few levels to read it all. Bottom line: The patch works. I added it to your tetex-1.0.7-45.src.rpm, rebuilt the RPMs, and -- bazaam! -- all problems solved. Note that the patch that Tom posted must be applied twice, once to each copy of writet1.c in your pdftex-20010417.tgz tarball. I simply duped the hunks in the patch, and edited the headers so that the one patch would apply to both files. I'll attach my doubled-up version of Tom's patch plus my patch to your .spec file that incorporates the former.
Created attachment 53484 [details] Kinder, gentler Type1 font embedding patch
Created attachment 53485 [details] Patch to RPM spec file
Thanks. Fixed package is 1.0.7-47.