Quick guide to making PDFs with text outlines from HTML

Create the HTML document.

<html>
<body style="margin: 0; padding: 0">
<div style="width: 2in; height: 2in; border: 1pt solid blue;”>
<span style="font-size: 0.5in">Hel</span>lo
</div>
</body>
</html>

Use the OS X command line tool wkhtmltopdf to convert the document to pdf

wkhtmltopdf -B 0 -T 0 -L 0 -R 0 --page-width 2in --page-height 2in box.html box.pdf

The fonts in this are embedded (or likely to be). To replace the fonts with text outlines use

gs -sDEVICE=ps2write -dNOCACHE -sOutputFile=- -q -dbatch -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET box.pdf -c quit | ps2pdf - box-nofont.pdf

Done.