Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Delta Symbol changes when converted to PDF

[sebpinski]

Hello all,

this is my first post so please be kind. Firstly I used opensuse 11.3 as my OS, kile for typesetting and xmgrace to create figures.

I've created figures in xmgrace and one of the axis labels contains the capital delta symbol (So basically a triangle). I print to '.eps' from xmgrace and the eps file contains the same symbol. As an additional note, if I then convert the eps to pdf, the symbol remains to same.

I use the figure in my latex document with the usual \includegraphics command and after compiling the generated dvi appears fine. I would like to then convert the dvi to pdf. Using the built in kile commands converting to convert to pdf (either: dvi -> pdf or dvi -> ps -> pdf) the delta symbol then changes to a circle with a strike through it, I think the DEC ascii character for the new symbol is: 248. I had a look around and can't find a fix.

My supervisor compiled this on a Windows machine and it worked, so can anyone advise me on how to make this portable.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Seb

[shadgrind]

Sounds like your fonts aren't being embedded in the PDF. Try this on your DVI file (say it's called yourfile.dvi) in a terminal window:

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dvips -Ppdf -G0 -z yourfile.dvi
ps2pdf14 -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer yourfile.ps

Otherwise it may be an encoding problem. See if putting this in your preamble helps:

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}