You can un-embed fonts using the PDF Optimizer (File>Save as Other>Optimized PDF…) in Adobe Acrobat XI Pro (unfortunately, the ‘Standard’ version does not have this feature). I’ve always suggested to un-embed fonts, so that was the first thing I tried. Once I had access to a file that had missing characters, I tried a number of different things. I finally struck gold and received a couple of files that show this problem. I’ve asked for sample files for many years, but never got anything useful. I’ve never seen this problem first hand, and therefore was not able to find a workaround that would fix it. If you want (or need) to play with these options there is a lot of documentation & you can ask questions on you ever tried to merge a few files and ended up with missing characters on some of your pages in the resulting PDF file? Here is a description of one of these instances – as a question posted on : This works the best for me without having to fiddle with the various options that these tools offer. Sometimes the ps2pdf tools are unsuccessful and the pstopdf tool works.Ĭonvert pdf's with pdf2ps and convert the resulting PostScript file to pdf with pstopdf. There's also a pstopdf tool installed by Apple that can convert PostScript to pdf. ps2pdf per se currently produces PDF 1.4 output. ps2pdf14 will always produce PDF 1.4 output (Acrobat 5-and-later compatible). ps2pdf13 will always produce PDF 1.3 output (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible). Pdf2ps allows you to specify which PS-level you want your output to be in.įrom its manpage - ps2pdf12 will always produce PDF 1.2 output (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible). The homebrew way brew install ghostscript or brew install gs (both do the same thing) installs a much smaller ghostscript package.Įither way you'll end up with the conversion tools. The MacTeX way gives you a 3 GB installer that will install by default a ghostscript package & lots of other things like a TeX folder in your /Applications folder.
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