Re: st: eps font export

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

I've always gone through a maddening trial-and-error process when 
trying to set the font in eps graph exports.  And whenever I get it 
to work, I always am so frustrated and glad to be done that I don't 
write down somewhere what worked, so I don't have any quick answer 
(which may well be dependent on details of installed fonts, anyway.)

But I've had luck with something like:

graph set eps fontface Times-Roman

or

graph set eps fontface TimesRoman

or something like that.

I've found it helpful to open a PDF that has the font I want (as part 
of the regular text), then see what it is called using File-Document 
Properties-Fonts in Acrobat.

Hope this helps.

(And I'd love to have someone explain how this all works so I 
understand conceptually what's going on...so far I've not ever really 
understood how fonts work, between MS Office programs, TrueType, Type 
1, LaTeX, Stata, and Adobe.)

--Nick Winter

At 08:40 AM 3/23/2006, you wrote:

> Dear Statalist,
>
> i've a problem with exported eps graphs from stata. I used the 
> "graph set eps fontface Times" command to change the font. Importing 
> the files in MS Word all fonts works well, but during the conversion 
> to pfd my distiller refuses to embed the font:
>
> %%[ Error: Times not found. Font cannot be embedded. ]%%
> %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: findfont ]%%
>
> In the created PDF-file the standard font of the Stata console is 
> used instead of Times.
> Does Stata use any special font types/format in eps format?
>
> I'm running Win XP and have installed TrueType and PS Fonts.
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
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