HDD backup with rsync

Just switched from Windows 7 built-in backup to rsync (using cwrsync).

Initially, backing up 88k files, 212 GB, to an external HDD (connected via USB2), took 9h 26 mins (383 MB/min).

Running rsync again (only a few browser-related files had changed), took 2h or so.

Making PDFs compatible with IEEE style guides

I had a lot of trouble embedding the Helvetica font into my PDF. Here's how I solved it (from here); instead of WinEdt, I changed the ps2pdf settings in GhostView.

At this moment (April 2006) it is not possible to make PDFLaTeX embed these fonts (aka the Base-14 fonts) if they are used in external images. PDFLaTeX will embed these fonts only if they are used in the document itself.

It is possible however to tell PS2PDF to embed the fonts:

• Open WinEdt
• Select: Options, Execution Modes
• Select ps2pdf
• The Command Line Switches for gswin32c.exe are

  -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -r600 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 

  Add the following switches to this line:

  -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true  -dEmbedAllFonts=true 

From now on PS2PDF will embed all fonts.