[racket] Creating PDF files in Racket

Thanks Jens,

Looking at this cairo documentation page I think that Cairo always embeds
fonts.
https://www.rforge.net/doc/packages/Cairo/Cairo.html

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"Cairo initializes a new graphics device that uses the cairo graphics
library for rendering. The current implementation produces high-quality
PNG, JPEG, TIFF bitmap files, *high resolution PDF files with embedded
fonts*,"
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Arguments
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type
output type. This version of Cario supports "png", "jpeg" and "tiff"
bitmaps (png/tiff with transparent background), "pdf" PDF-file with
embedded fonts, ......


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Jens Axel Søgaard <jensaxel at soegaard.net>wrote:

> 2013/12/10 Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>:
> > Thank you John for  your example below.  I'm still not clear where (if
> > possible) the parameter is for whether the font is embedded in the PDF
> > document or not.  Is the font embedded by default.
>
> I think it depends on the type of font. I found this in the changelog for
> Cairo 1.2.0 (and Racket uses 1.10.x).
>
>     And in the PDF and PostScript backends, both type1 and TrueType fonts
>     will be directly embedded in the output file. This results in
> higher-quality
>     previews and better performance.
>
> /Jens Axel
>
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