we were getting some logo printed and the print shop was not happy with the pdf we’ve provided – they had some problem with the embedded font and asked us to provide another pdf with vectorized curves instead of text. based on this – although the first method with gsview did not work for me – it turned out that it can be done without expensive adobe tools.
i’ve installed pdf creator and foxit reader. in foxit tools>preferecnes>general: [x] print text as graphics (ignore font substitution), opened the pdf, selected print to: pdf creator.