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   title="NEW --- - Bad PostScript out of not so bad PDF"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79897#c7">Comment # 7</a>
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   title="NEW --- - Bad PostScript out of not so bad PDF"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79897">bug 79897</a>
              from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:cloos@jhcloos.com" title="James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>"> <span class="fn">James Cloos</span></a>
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        <pre><span class="quote">>>>>> "b" == bugzilla-daemon  <<a href="mailto:bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org">bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org</a>> writes:</span >

<span class="quote">>> The pdf does not embed the font it uses for the italic footer on each
>> page and for the initial M of the string «Mẫu M.01/LS» on the first page.</span >

b> You're right, it is complaining about Times-Italic. Distiller
b> complains about the same: %%[ Error: Times-Italic not found. Font
b> cannot be embedded. ]%%

cairo embeds (replacements for) the missing fonts (as found via
fontconfig.  What error does the 79897-pdftocairo.ps generate?

Does this ps work on that printer:

%!
/Times-Italic 24 selectfont
200 200 moveto (Font is Times Italic) show
showpage
%eof

Of this:

%!
/pdfMakeFont {
  4 3 roll findfont
  4 2 roll matrix scale makefont
  dup length dict begin
    { 1 index /FID ne { def } { pop pop } ifelse } forall
    /Encoding exch def
    currentdict
  end
  definefont pop
} def
/F6_0 /Times-Italic 1 1
[ /.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef
  /.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef
  /.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef
  /.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef
  /space/exclam/quotedbl/numbersign/dollar/percent/ampersand/quotesingle
  /parenleft/parenright/asterisk/plus/comma/hyphen/period/slash
  /zero/one/two/three/four/five/six/seven
  /eight/nine/colon/semicolon/less/equal/greater/question
  /at/A/B/C/D/E/F/G
  /H/I/J/K/L/M/N/O
  /P/Q/R/S/T/U/V/W
  /X/Y/Z/bracketleft/backslash/bracketright/asciicircum/underscore
  /grave/a/b/c/d/e/f/g
  /h/i/j/k/l/m/n/o
  /p/q/r/s/t/u/v/w
  /x/y/z/braceleft/bar/braceright/asciitilde/bullet
  /Euro/bullet/quotesinglbase/florin/quotedblbase/ellipsis/dagger/daggerdbl
  /circumflex/perthousand/Scaron/guilsinglleft/OE/bullet/Zcaron/bullet
  /bullet/quoteleft/quoteright/quotedblleft/quotedblright/bullet/endash/emdash
  /tilde/trademark/scaron/guilsinglright/oe/bullet/zcaron/Ydieresis
  /space/exclamdown/cent/sterling/currency/yen/brokenbar/section
 
/dieresis/copyright/ordfeminine/guillemotleft/logicalnot/hyphen/registered/macron
  /degree/plusminus/twosuperior/threesuperior/acute/mu/paragraph/periodcentered
 
/cedilla/onesuperior/ordmasculine/guillemotright/onequarter/onehalf/threequarters/questiondown
  /Agrave/Aacute/Acircumflex/Atilde/Adieresis/Aring/AE/Ccedilla
  /Egrave/Eacute/Ecircumflex/Edieresis/Igrave/Iacute/Icircumflex/Idieresis
  /Eth/Ntilde/Ograve/Oacute/Ocircumflex/Otilde/Odieresis/multiply
  /Oslash/Ugrave/Uacute/Ucircumflex/Udieresis/Yacute/Thorn/germandbls
  /agrave/aacute/acircumflex/atilde/adieresis/aring/ae/ccedilla
  /egrave/eacute/ecircumflex/edieresis/igrave/iacute/icircumflex/idieresis
  /eth/ntilde/ograve/oacute/ocircumflex/otilde/odieresis/divide
  /oslash/ugrave/uacute/ucircumflex/udieresis/yacute/thorn/ydieresis]
pdfMakeFont
/F6_0 12 selectfont
200 200 moveto (Font is Times Italic) show
showpage
%eof</pre>
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