How to make GhostScript PS2PDF stop subsetting fonts

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Published on 2009-09-13T16:16:48Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 22:22 UTC
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I am using the ps2pdf14 utility that ships with GhostScript, and I am having a problem with fonts.

It does not seem to matter what instructions I pass to the command, it insists on subsetting any fonts it finds in the source document.

e.g

-dPDFSETTINGS#/prepress -dEmbedAllFonts#true -dSubsetFonts#false -dMaxSubsetPct#0

Note that the # is because the command is running on windows, it is the same as =.

If anyone has any idea how to tell ps2pdf not to subset fonts, I would be very greatful.

Thanks

--------------------------Notes ------------------------------------------

The source file is a pdf containing embedded fonts, so it is the fonts already embedded in the source file, that I need to prevent being subset in the destination file.

Currently all source file embedded fonts are subset, in some cases this is not apparent from the font name, i.e it contains no hash, and appears at first glance to be the full font, however the widths array has been subset in all cases.

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