Is Arial and Times type 1 fonts?

[gjm...@gmail.com]

First of all, I do not understand much about fonts in latex.

I have always heard that to guarantee a safe accessibility to pdf
files and a clean display of the fonts we should use type 1 fonts, and
that Arial and Times New Roman are not part of type 1 fonts.

What I dont understand is that I do use Arial and Times New Roman in
my tex files and every time I look at the fonts using Adobe Reader it
is says that Arial and Times New Roman are type 1 fonts.

Arial appears as "embed subset" while Times New Roman appears as "type
1, actual font: TimesNewRoman-PSMT, actual font type: truetype".

In conclusion, can I keep using these two fonts and still be sure they
will not be rendered as type 3 or have problems when

[gjm...@gmail.com]

First of all, I do not understand much about fonts in latex.

I have always heard that to guarantee a safe accessibility to pdf
files and a clean display of the fonts we should use type 1 fonts, and
that Arial and Times New Roman are not part of type 1 fonts.

What I dont understand is that I do use Arial and Times New Roman in
my tex files and every time I look at the fonts using Adobe Reader it
is says that Arial and Times New Roman are type 1 fonts.

Arial appears as "embed subset" while Times New Roman appears as "type

1, actual font: TimesNewRoman-PSMT, actual font type: truetype" (what
it means, I do not know).

In conclusion, can I keep using these two fonts and still be sure they

will not be rendered as type 3 by other users or have problems when
printing?

[Robin Fairbairns]

gjm...@gmail.com writes:
>First of all, I do not understand much about fonts in latex.
>
>I have always heard that to guarantee a safe accessibility to pdf
>files and a clean display of the fonts we should use type 1 fonts, and
>that Arial and Times New Roman are not part of type 1 fonts.

actually, the requirement is that the fonts should be in _outline_
font formats, not 'just' type 1. times new roman and arial are
typically distributed as ttf (nominally truetype); that's another
outline format.

>What I dont understand is that I do use Arial and Times New Roman in
>my tex files and every time I look at the fonts using Adobe Reader it
>is says that Arial and Times New Roman are type 1 fonts.
>
>Arial appears as "embed subset" while Times New Roman appears as "type
>1, actual font: TimesNewRoman-PSMT, actual font type: truetype" (what
>it means, I do not know).

embedded is good; i don't actually understand what the file is saying
about tnr, but i imagine that the file is created with the assumption
that a viewer will have tnr available. this is not reliable: tnr is
typically _not_ available on un*x-like systems.

>In conclusion, can I keep using these two fonts and still be sure they
>will not be rendered as type 3 by other users or have problems when
>printing?

there will (probability very close to 1) be no "type 3-like"
problems. however, there may be font substitution problems from that
use of tnr: without actually seeing a file, i can't be sure.

you don't say how you created the pdf file; without knowing that, it's
difficult to make any other recommendation.
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge

[William F. Adams]

gjma... said:

>Arial appears as "embed subset" while Times New Roman appears as "type
>1, actual font: TimesNewRoman-PSMT, actual font type: truetype" (what
>it means, I do not know).

TNR PS MT was referenced when the file was made, but not embedded ---
whenviewing at that moment on that system, TNR in TrueType was used.

William

[gjm...@gmail.com]

Thank you for the explanation. I am now able to embed all the fonts I
need. I am using Latex => PS => PDF with dvips and ps2pdf whith MikTex.

I have changed the Ghostscritp instructions to

-dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 -dMaxSubsetPct=100
-dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dSAFER -dBATCH
-dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="%bm.pdf" -c save pop -f
"%bm.ps"

and everything works fine.