I prepared a document in XeLaTeX in Linux, fonts embedded, then I went to a printing guy on windows + lots of Adobe tools, and pdf looks the other way on his machine: some fonts get scaled which results in a slightly deformed layout.
How do You get a portable pdf?
My first thought is to convert pdf to ps with a virtual printer (CUPS in case of linux).
One other possible solution is to embed fonts in the ps resulted:
ps2pdf14 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress document.ps
Edit:
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
% fonts:
\defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase,Mapping=tex-text}
\setmainfont{DejaVu Sans}
\setsansfont{DejaVu Sans}
\setmonofont{DejaVu Sans Mono}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\begin{document}
\faBullhorn test.
\end{document}
In okular:
In Adobe Reader:
You see in Adobe the glyph is larger. How do I process pdf so that it is displayed in the same way in any major pdf viewer?
Edit 2:
The problem with scaled font is solved if I open the pdf and export it to pdf with Master PDF Editor -- but its free version warns me about the watermark (which I actually can't find).
Export to pdf in PDF Shuffler doesn't help.
Printing to pdf in virtual CUPS printer doesn't help. Moreover after piping pdf through CUPS adobe reader doesn't see the glyph at all.
pdfinfocan be helpful. Can you provide a bit more details about looks the other way on his machine. How do you detect a slightly deformed layout? – daleif Oct 14 '13 at 12:07prepressof ps2pdf I'm sure that all fonts are embedded. I visited the guy again but he already left home. So I wait for tommorrow. – Adobe Oct 14 '13 at 12:14