We tried to print a PDF file at university yesterday. Unfortunately we had to rescale the PDF file from A3 to A4. To do so, we first needed the PDF in PostScript format. When we tried to convert the PDF to PostScript, we got this nice message:
bash-3.00$ pdf2ps /home/vw_7/oe/2007/Gremien/visio-gremienskizze-v2.pdf**** Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded.But ArialMT is not embedded.**** Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded.But Arial-BoldMT is not embedded.**** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.**** The file was produced by:**** >>>> Acrobat Distiller 7.0 (Windows) < <<<**** Please notify the author of the software that produced this**** file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF**** specification.
Two options here: Either the message is wrong or Adobe does not eat it’s own dogfood. Don’t know, what applies as I’m by no means a PDF specification expert. The PostScript file ended up to be some 355 MB in size by the way. A bit much for the printer. So we decided to take the PNG version of the file and used GIMP to do the printing magic for us.
Thanks again J. for forwarding the warning message and of course for the good operator service!
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