How to convert TrueType to Type1 fonts?

[lp]

We have a scenario in which the PDFs we create through the printer driver have to be fed into an unattended (external) system printing them to paper.
Such system requires the incoming PDFs to have Type1 (outline) or Type3 (bitmap) fonts only, but we are currently using truetype fonts in all the reports.
Since changing all the reports' fonts is somehow unfeasible, I wanted to know if there is a way to convert TrueType fonts to Type1 within the printer driver... Well, of course printing everything as images wouldn't use fonts, but it's heavy and could block the documents from being printed since we also have size constraints on that side..
Any hint is welcome
Thank you in advance,
Luke

[edit: i put the wrong title, as a matter of fact it was the opposite of what i wrote in the post now it should be ok ]

[lp]

Another option to solve this could be to generate a Postscript-only output, converting the text into vector drawings, in order to have a better overall quality and a smaller size footprint than the rough bitmap conversion...
Is this possible and, if possible, how?
Thank you!

[Joan]

Hello,

Unfortunately this is not available through the PDF Converter.

However if you wish we might be able to provide you this as custom development.

Hope this helps.

[lp]

I've seen that most printer drivers have an option to convert fonts to Type1 (inside the printer's "Printing preferences">"Advanced...")
Looking under "Document options">"Postscript options">"TrueType Font Download Option" I can see they usually have 4 options:
Automatic / Outline / Bitmap / Native TrueType

The "outline" choice (=type1) is the one i'm looking for...
But since i'm using the developer version I cannot tell if such option is there...
Probably it's not there, since it isn't referenced anywhere in the docs, but I would be very happy to know I'm wrong
Is there a way to know this? Is this handled by the printer driver of by the system?
Thank you in advance!
Luke

[lp]

Well...how much time and cost would this kind of "custom solution" require?
It's important to us since we have strict requirements to meet on that kind of output..
Hope there can be a way to have this working.

[edit: I wrote to the sales address to know more about it...]

[Joan]

Hello,

Our Sales team will get back to you.

However for custom development you can fill the following form: http://www.amyuni.com/en/proservices/submit.php that will be checked by technical project manager in addition to our Sales Manager and you will get back a quote.

Hope this helps.

[lp]

Hi Joan!
I've fresh news about this, looks like there seems to be a third option for us: after trying a lot of output options and after a lot of asking, we were told that also PDF/A (ISO 19005-1:2005) and PDF/X (ISO 15930-7:2008) are going to be accepted formats (or probably PDF/X-1a), so there's a viable way to get the job done without having to convert all the fonts to type1, as long as the generated PDF conforms to those standards.
Do the amyuni drivers support such standards? I guess so, from what i read on the folowing posts, can you confirm that?
http://www.amyuni.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1897 >> PDF/A starting from 2.51
http://www.amyuni.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2206 >> PDF/X starting from 3.01
In particular, is it/will be possible to generate PDF/X-1a files?

For sake of completeness, in the meanwhile I tried several alternatives.
I tried to create a "normal" PDF through the Amyuni Printer driver and then "post process" it with an external application, for instance printing the PDF to a new PDF through a second print driver in which I set appropriate PS options within the "advanced options" to download the fonts to the printer as "outline fonts". That worked, but wasn't able to get it work unattended..
Then I was looking around the dmTTOption member in the DEVMODE data structure of the printer, trying the way to set it to the DMTT_DOWNLOAD_OUTLINE value (Type1 fonts) from our application... I never got there, but I stopped as soon as I heard the news I've just told you about: creating PDF/A or PDF/X files is clearly a better and forward-looking approach.

I'll let you know what I'll find on this topic, in the meanwhile thank you for your support!
Have a nice day!
Luke

[Joan]

In version 3.03 of the Converter you can generate PDF/a and PDF/x files.

You can try this using the current demo if you wish.