Export_fig embedded fonts in Matlab R2018a

[gideonbo]

Hi,

I'm trying to export a figure in PDF format with the Palatino and Cambria fonts.

The matlab code is as follows:

x = rand(4,2);
figure('color', 'w');
b = bar(x, 'barwidth', 0.9) ;
b(1).FaceColor = [ 0    0.4470    0.7410];
b(2).FaceColor = [ 0.6350    0.0780    0.1840];
set(gca, 'fontsize', 20, 'fontname', 'cambria', 'fontweight', 'bold', 'xticklabel',  {'0-1', '2-5', '6-10', '>10'});
ylabel('Vertical Axis', 'fontname', 'palatino')
xlabel('Horizontal Axis', 'fontname', 'palatino')
leg = legend('Model', 'Data', 'Location', 'Northeast');
set(leg, 'box', 'off', 'fontname', 'palatino')
grid on
export_fig example -pdf -painters -nofontswap

This is the resulting figure: (note fonts have been altered)
example.pdf

Am I doing something wrong?
Any help is greatly appreciated!

[altmany]

The latest commit should hopefully improve the situation, but the underlying problem remains unsolved, because I cannot figure out how to force the EPS postscript engine to load the user font from disk.
Leaving this issue open for now.

[altmany]

See related issue #324