pdflatex does not embeds Helvetica font

[Manuel López-Ibáñez]

Run pdflatex on a file with:
\usepackage{helvet}

Check fonts (for example using pdffonts from xpdf-extra).

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

Created an attachment (id=4875)
patch to embed all fonts in tetex

Replaces all false with true in /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg
Requires to run some commands afterwards:
sudo update-updmap
sudo updmap

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

This patch has side effects, it may result in errors like

dvips: Font Helvetica not present in current mapping.

Running updmap --edit and changing the following seems to give the same results
and prevent those errors:

 # the fonts. The pdf files will get bigger, though.
 # Valid settings are true (download the fonts) or false (don't download
 # the fonts).
-pdftexDownloadBase14 false
+pdftexDownloadBase14 true

 #
 # dvipdfmDownloadBase14
[...]
 # the fonts. The pdf files will get bigger, though.
 # Valid settings are true (download the fonts) or false (don't download
 # the fonts).
-dvipdfmDownloadBase14 false
+dvipdfmDownloadBase14 true

 ################################################################
 # Map files.

However, I cannot define this as a patch seems I am not sure what updmap --edit
exactly does...

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

After some discussion, and research, I'm rejecting this bug. In normal operation, pdflatex should not embed the so-called "base 14" fonts.

You can do it on a file-per-file basis if you really do need them embedded:

    http://fiachra.ucd.ie/~gavin/docs/timesinpdfs.html

And as you note, you can configure your own install to do it by just editing a configuration file.

Making this the Ubuntu default would be wrong.