{science.standards} IEEE PDF eXpress

The manuscript preparation hassle ... This time I followed every bit of advice from the conference and read all the comments to generate a hassle-free manuscript. All in vein. Now I am really driving nuts here. Using LaTeX and dvi2ps the .ps file is generated nicely. Fat. I used two methods to convert this .ps file to a wicked .pdf file and check the IEEE Xplore compatibility through the eXpress service:

(a) to convert the .ps from the GhostView (using the 'F' command, isn't it ironic that it is called the 'F' command?) and select "embedd all fonts" as true and the rest of the adjustments according to this. eXpress failed and

(b) using Adobe Distiller and embedding the fonts from there. First, I try embedding all fonts. It can't find some fonts to embed. Helvetica. Times-Roman. Times-Italic, and etc. How on earth have you found them to show them on the screen then, loser? Then, I enforce Distiller to "always embed fonts", those that are as simple as Times-Roman and Helvetica but still eXpress fails with the error message that those fonts are not embedded.

I search for the problem and google returns 761 hits, Adobe's support knowledgebase among them. Solutions 1 and 2 did not work and I only had 3 tries with this eXpress service. I am set up. It's like playing a game you think you are good at, and from no where a dragon appears and kills all your 3 lives in blink of an eye. I am set up by all those computer scientists (oh yeah, scientists they are) involved in this childish bug.

'Veh, do you have any solutions to my incompatibility problem?