Tag: pdf

Using PDF-XChange as default pdf viewer

Posted on by phsamuel

PDF-XChange can be installed and run quite smoothly with wine. However, it is a bit tricky to set it as default application as it is not registered automatically and so won’t be on the list of choices when using mimeopen to set default app. My solution is to change default.list in ~/.local/share/applications (or /usr/share/applications if you want to…

Embed all fonts

Posted on by phsamuel

IEEE always requires authors to embed all fonts for the final pdf submission. After some googling, the commands that works for me under Ubuntu are dvips -Pdownload35 -t letter -G0 -o paper.ps paper.dvi ps2pdf -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true  paper.ps paper.pdf If you have eps figures that are generated from matlab, most likely some fonts in…