How to get rid of CID TrueType fonts?

[Philipp Klaus Krause]

pdflatex produces a .pdf file, which contains CID TrueType fonts. I need
to get rid of them. I can run the pdf trhough pdftops followed by ps2df,
but then I loose all the hyperlinks, the author informarmation, etc.
Is there a way to get the CID TrueType font converted to anything else
without losing the hyperlinks?

Also, what's the problem with CID TrueType? I had submitted a paper to
an ACM conference, and today was told that CID TrueType is not allowed
for ACM proceedings.

Philipp

[Lee Rudolph]

Philipp Klaus Krause <p...@spth.de> writes:

>pdflatex produces a .pdf file, which contains CID TrueType fonts. I need
>to get rid of them.

The first question is, how in the world did you *get* them?
You have to have done something (if only passively) for them
to appear. A minimal example of a LaTeX document for which
your "pdflatex produces a .pdf file" would be helpful here.

>I can run the pdf trhough pdftops followed by ps2df,
>but then I loose all the hyperlinks, the author informarmation, etc.
>Is there a way to get the CID TrueType font converted to anything else
>without losing the hyperlinks?
>
>Also, what's the problem with CID TrueType? I had submitted a paper to
>an ACM conference, and today was told that CID TrueType is not allowed
>for ACM proceedings.

Lee Rudolph

[Philipp Klaus Krause]

On 21.05.2013 21:19, Lee Rudolph wrote:
> Philipp Klaus Krause <p...@spth.de> writes:
>
>> pdflatex produces a .pdf file, which contains CID TrueType fonts. I need
>> to get rid of them.
>
> The first question is, how in the world did you *get* them?
> You have to have done something (if only passively) for them
> to appear. A minimal example of a LaTeX document for which
> your "pdflatex produces a .pdf file" would be helpful here.

Hmm, after a bit more investigating it seems they come from .pdf files
produced by inkscape, and included into the .tex file using
\includegraphics.

These inkscape file use font "cmr10". I have other such inkscape files
using the same font that do not result in the problem. The difference
seems to be that the problematic one uses more exotic charcaters, such
as U+1D587 MATHEMATICAL BOLD FRAKTUR SMALL B. I used that one to put a
symbol into the figure that is a \mathfrak{b} in the .tex file.

But now that the problem is isolated, I can use this somewhat unelegant,
but working solution: Save the problematic files from inkscape with the
option to convert text to outline enabled (and meet the resubmissiond
eadline in 17 hours).

Still, I wonder, what's bad about CID TrueType and why ACM doesn't like
them (and now also why inkscape uses them depending on which characters
are in the text).

Philipp