Missing text with T1 font encoding

[stefanct]

Using T1 font encoding by adding \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} to the header of a file fed to pdflatex+beamer results in all text missing. Displaying the same file in evince and co works w/o problems. It seems like this has never worked yet (tested with Jakob's 2.0 too).

[AndreasBilke]

Hi,

I can't reproduce your problem.

My minimal example:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Hallo}
Äöhi
\end{frame}
\end{document}

I used an up to date TeXLive 2012 installation and the pdfpc master version.

Could you post your code and some informations about your environment?

[stefanct]

Your MWE triggers the same problem, so my code is not the issue. I am using ubuntu 12.10's texlive 2012.20120611-4 but on a 12.04 installation (i.e. latex-related packages pinned to the 12.10 distribution, everything else standard 12.04 packages). This has worked so far without any problems (apart from some strange fontconfig warnings whenever I start a gui app :) If you can't reproduce it I guess we can ignore the issue for now (and I would not mind if you would close the issue, or leave it open). Sorry for the noise.

[ranger111]

Hi,

I have a similar problem as stefanct on my PC. I'm using a company specific beamer template and bullet points and mathematical formulas are missing if I present the slides with pdfpc.

The above example produces also empty slides if I view the output with pdfpc. If I use a another pdfviewer like Okular, everythin works fine.

I'm using Debian testing. The installed texlive version is 2012.20120611-5. I used the master version from the git hub.

[sneumann]

Same here. Below a font info of the PDF in question:

pdfinfo slides.pdf Title: .... Subject:
Keywords:
Author:
Creator: LaTeX with Beamer class version 3.27 Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.12 CreationDate: Wed Nov 6 12:20:03 2013 ModDate: Wed Nov 6 12:20:03 2013 Tagged: no Pages: 43 Encrypted: no Page size: 362.835 x 272.126 pts File size: 1938149 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.5 sneumann@paddy:~$ pdffonts slides.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID

---

[none] Type 3 yes no no 68 0 [none] Type 3 yes no no 69 0 [none] Type 3 yes no no 70 0 [none] Type 3 yes no no 131 0 [none] Type 3 yes no no 174 0 IPHTLF+CMSY10 Type 1 yes yes no 189 0 BAAAAA+SegoeUI TrueType yes yes yes 193 0 CAAAAA+ArialMT TrueType yes yes yes 194 0 BAAAAA+SegoeUI TrueType yes yes yes 204 0 CAAAAA+ArialMT TrueType yes yes yes 205 0 BAAAAA+SegoeUI TrueType yes yes yes 225 0 CAAAAA+ArialMT TrueType yes yes yes 226 0 BAAAAA+SegoeUI TrueType yes yes yes 245 0 CAAAAA+ArialMT TrueType yes yes yes 246 0 [none] Type 3 yes no no 297 0 BAAAAA+ArialMT TrueType yes yes yes 343 0 CAAAAA+Arial-BoldMT TrueType yes yes yes 344 0 [none] Type 3 yes no no 368 0 BAAAAA+ArialMT TrueType yes yes yes 385 0 Helvetica Type 1 no no no 401 0 Helvetica-Oblique Type 1 no no no 402 0 [none] Type 3 yes no no 445 0 Helvetica Type 1 no no no 450 0 Helvetica-Oblique Type 1 no no no 451 0 Helvetica Type 1 no no no 496 0 Helvetica Type 1 no no no 501 0 Helvetica Type 1 no no no 517 0 Helvetica Type 1 no no no 522 0 BAAAAA+ArialMT TrueType yes yes yes 539 0 [none] Type 3 yes no no 613 0

[AndreasBilke]

Hi, could you post your pdf to verify your issue on other systems?

[sneumann]

Hi, please grab an example from http://msbi.ipb-halle.de/~sneumann/slide43.pdf

[AndreasBilke]

Hi, thanks for your example.

bilke@savannenbilch ~/Downloads
$ pdfinfo slide43.pdf
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Invalid XRef entry
Tagged:         no
Form:           none
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      362.835 x 272.126 pts
Page rot:       0
File size:      80725 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.5

bilke@savannenbilch ~/Downloads
$ pdffonts slide43.pdf
name                                 type              encoding         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
[none]                               Type 3            Custom           yes no  no      68  0
[none]                               Type 3            Custom           yes no  no      69  0
[none]                               Type 3            Custom           yes no  no     297  0
[none]                               Type 3            Custom           yes no  no     131  0

Sorry, I can't reproduce your problem. I tried the file on an current arch linux and debian box.

Are you using an ubuntu 12.04 like the original author of this issue?

[pdebuyl]

Hello,

Text is missing for me too on @sneumann's example.

I have a short testcase in matplotlib too. The following code (with pylab) generates a pdf where the axis numbering and label do not appear in pdfpc.

plot(rand(10))
xlabel('x axis')
savefig('plot.pdf')

The resulting file has the following pdffonts output:

pdebuyl@host:~$ pdffonts plot.pdf 
name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
DejaVuSans                           Type 3            yes no  no      14  0

I run Debian wheezy/sid (via pinning) and pdfpc is at version v3.1.1.

Do you need anymore input? Should I try a more recent version?

[nairboon]

I had the same problem with fonts not showing up in debian jessie. After sudo apt-get install cm-super and rebuilding the pdf all Type 3 fonts vanished and pdfpc works now :)

[sebacastroh]

To avoid the Type3 fonts in Python you can use the following code

import matplotlib
matplotlib.rcParams['pdf.fonttype'] = 42
matplotlib.rcParams['ps.fonttype'] = 42

or

import matplotlib.pylab as plt
plt.rc('pdf', fonttype=42)
plt.rc('ps',  fonttype=42)

Reference: http://www.phyletica.com/?p=308

[sparusaurata]

I had the same problem (it was working with OT1 but not with T1), and sudo apt-get install lmodern solved it.