Hi Ruprecht,

"RvW" == Ruprecht von Waldenfels writes:

 RvW> I have been trying for some time to have better results
 RvW> converting to PDF by using Type 1 fonts. I've edited the divps
 RvW> config.ps file and added support for Type 1 cm fonts; included
 RvW> the {type1cm} package and used dvips and then ghostscript 7.00
 RvW> to convert my File to pdf using embedded fonts. Still only the
 RvW> latin fonts are embedded.  As I don't fully understand the
 RvW> mechanisms behind what I'm doing, I started to look and found
 RvW> out that - as it seems to me - I should need to somehow activate
 RvW> the bluesky cyrillic fonts I'm aiming at.  What puzzles me is
 RvW> that these fonts are not specified as to what encoding they
 RvW> use. (I use T2A as an encoding) But maybe I don't understand the
 RvW> mechanisms behind using Type 1 Fonts.

First of all, the bluesky cyrillic fonts (wncy* fonts) come not in T2A
encoding, but in 7-bit OT2 encoding. (it is possible, however, to
create virtual fonts which will be T2A-encoded, but will refer to
bluesky cyrillic fonts).

So, to use bluesky cyrillic fonts, you should use OT2 encoding:

\usepackage[OT2,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{your-input-encoding}{inputenc}

Then you have two options to enter cyrillic text:

  either switch to OT2 encoding and wncyr font family:
  \fontencoding{OT2}\fontfamily{wncyr}\selectfont, and then enter
  cyrillic text using latin letters

  or switch to cyrillic 8-bit input encoding and enter cyrillic text
  using it (e.g.
  \fontencoding{OT2}\fontfamily{wncyr}\selectfont\inputencoding{koi8-r}).

Then PDF will include type1 bluesky cyrillic fonts. (the default cmr
font family uses LH fonts but not bluesky, but you apparently do not
have type1 versions of LH fonts, so you get bitmaps in PDF).

If you use T2A encoding with cmr font family, you again use LH fonts
(which will become bitmaps in your PDF because you do not have type1
version of LH fonts).

And make sure to have your psfonts.map and pdftex.map contain a
section with wncy* fonts (look e.g. for wncyr10.pfb).

You can also find TeX support files for the cyrillic bakoma fonts
(they are also CM-like) at

  ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/font-packs/c1fonts/

after unpacking the tarballs into your texmf tree, do not forget to
update your psfonts.map and pdftex.map files. on teTeX, this could be
accomplished by adding a reference to cmbkmcyr.map included in the
c1fonts package into the script updmap, and running that script.

[the paradissa-corr tarball is provided as a replacement for original
type1 fonts which contain some incompatibilities with dvips and pdftex
embedding algorithms].

Best,
v.