> I have also had this problem (and using -dEmbedAllFonts=false didn't
> help).
>
> I have had success with gv to view the PDFs that xpdf just shows as dots.
>
> What are you using to view the PDF files?
i'm using xpdf which displays more .pdf's than acrobat ;)
acrobat often says cannot find embedded font xxxx, while xpdf displays
fine, is much faster and consumes less memory