Package: imagemagick
Version: 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b2
Severity: normal
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When converting from a png to a pdf, /usr/bin/convert seems to add a
type 1 Helvetica font to the pdf, even though there is no text in the
PDF at all. At best, this is unnecessary, generated cruft.
Worse, though, is that some publishers (e.g. lulu.com) require all
fonts in PDFs to be explicitly embedded [0]. This means that PDFs
generated from a single PNG by imagemagick will fail for those
publishers. This can be pretty aggravating.
Here's a demonstration of the problem (pdffonts is from the
poppler-utils package, and ):
[0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] imagemagick]$ convert /usr/share/pixmaps/debian-logo.png
debian-logo.pdf
[0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] imagemagick]$ pdffonts debian-logo.pdf
name type emb sub uni object ID
- ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
Helvetica Type 1 no no no 8 0
[0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] imagemagick]$
Thanks for maintaining the ImageMagick suite in debian. It's a very
useful toolkit.
Regards,
--dkg
[0]
http://www.lulu.com/en/help/index.php?fSymbol=how_do_I_make_pdf#make_sure_pdf_prints_right
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages imagemagick depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-0.1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liblcms1 1.16-10 Color management library
ii libmagick10 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b2 image manipulation library
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-8 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
imagemagick recommends no packages.
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