How to make Times-Roman appear instead of NimbusRomNo9L-Regu in the PDF document properties in LaTeX?

Question

When we generate a simple document in LaTeX using the times package (\usepakage{times} @ 9pt), the resultant PDF will contain NimbusRomNo9L-Regu instead of Times-Roman. (I know, this is because, LaTeX is renaming Times to Nimbus for embedding the font in PDF. Correct me if I am wrong.)

We can make Times-Roman to appear in the PDF (instead of NimbusRomNo9L-Regu) by adding some mapping in dvips configuration file (config.ps or config.pdf). How do we do this. Thus generated PS file when distilled using Adobe Distiller will show Times-Roman instead of NimbusRomNo9L-Regu.

I am searching the internet resources for a couple of days to find a suitable explanation for this. But I did not get a suitable answer. I hope somebody in this list can help me in fixing the problem.

Answer 1

LaTeX is not renaming the font, but using NimbusRoman because that font has been set up to be used as TimesRoman. Iff you had purchased a proper TimesRoman font (whatever that is exactly) and instructed your TeX system to use that, PDFs generated from that system would display its font name.