You might want to try cairo for that instead. It has PS and PDF backends which are pretty direct (see the bottom of this page http://cairographics.org/documenta

You might want to try cairo for that instead. It has PS and PDF backends which are pretty direct (see the bottom of this page http://cairographics.org/documentation/using_the_postscript_surface/ http://cairographics.org/documentation/using_the_postscript_...), and it'll take care of font subsetting and embedding for you, if that font allows it.