Conversion Tools ⇒ Problems making Acrobat-editable PDF

[firebones]

Hello all,

I am a writer, and a new editor wrote me to say that he unable to edit my PDFs in acrobat. He can open them [of course], but when he goes to edit, it says "no system font available."

The odd thing is that the fonts are embedded in the PDF [they show up as embedded in the Font tab on the Document -> Properties window].

I was wondering if it was common/normal for latex -> Dvips -> ps2pdf to make a pdf that cannot be edited in acrobat.

I originally used PDFLaTeX and only switched to the Latex->Dvips->gswin workflow after reading that it was a more reliable way of making sure the FULL fonts are embedded.

I use dvips with the -j0 switch to make sure the ps file receives the full fonts. [I was not using -Ppdf switch originally, but I don't think that can be the problem as all the fonts are type 1]

I am using gswin with what I think are appropriate options:

-dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -r600 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=false -dPermissions=-4

The -dSubsetFonts=False should make sure the full fonts get embedded and -dPermissions=-4 should release all security from the created pdf.

I think I am using version 8.3 of ghostscript. I would think anything after [and including] 6.5 would be adequate regarding type 1 font embedding.

I have also sent him the .ps file and asked if he could distill it into a file he could edit. That also does not appear to have solved the problem.

I am using linuxlibertine and fonts from the ae package.

Any ideas??

Is it normal for ghostscript to produce PDFs that acrobat cannot edit?

[qudo046]

You should install latex fonts in windows system.
In my case I have miktex installed and
I went into the directory

C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\fonts\type1\public\amsfonts\cm

then I selected all the pfm fonts and istalled
with "right click" --> install

Now opening I can edit a pdf generated by latex
(although some characters are misssing, like accented letters).