Re: st: Fonts and graph export

[Ernest Berkhout <ernestb@seo.fee.uva.nl>]

At 16:52 20-8-2003, you wrote:
> I'm trying to specify a font face in a -graph export- command, in which 
> I'm exporting to an encapsulated postscript file. The font I want to use 
> is TrueType (I'm on windows); its name is "Palatino Linotype".  I can't 
> get it to work, no matter what I do with the font() option.
>
> When I specify font("Palatino Linotype"), stata creates the .eps file, but 
> then acrobat complains about it.
>
> When I print the graph from Stata directly to Acrobat Distiller, things 
> work perfectly--I get a pdf file with the right font--so it must
Mmmh, that sounds vagelue familiair to me. At the time when our office had 
Palatino as the default font there were always some programs that refused 
to accept that font, although other software was able to find the font 
somewhere. If I'm right (but still quite ignorant about printers) most 
problems had to do with the fact that Palatino was a printer-specific 
softfont. Probably Acrobat is configured to automatically include the 
Palatino font and Stata isn't. What did your computer department people 
tell you about this?


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