From 7f4cd04d50632d6fd41589a413021d104c7ec6ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mirek Kratochvil <miroslav.kratochvil@uni.lu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:20:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add a note to pdfa.sh

---
 pdfa.sh | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pdfa.sh b/pdfa.sh
index dce617a..a33f3b2 100755
--- a/pdfa.sh
+++ b/pdfa.sh
@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ gs -dPDFA=1 \
    -sOutputFile="pdfa-$1" \
    "$1"
 
-# note: PDFACompatibilityPolicy=3 actually doesn't exist. A bug in ghostscript
+# Notes:
+#
+# PDFACompatibilityPolicy=3 actually doesn't exist. A bug in ghostscript
 # interprets is as something between 1 and 2, without unnecessary failing on
 # various dumb errors.
+#
+# Add -dNoOutputFonts if you absolutely totally need to get rid of fonts in a
+# figure PDF. Do not do that for the whole thesis though-- a thesis with
+# removed font glyphs is not submittable!