On 7/7/2023 4:51 AM, Max Chernoff wrote:
Hi Hans,
In lpdf-emb.lmt, there's a commented-out definition of
lpdf.registerfontmethod that I'd like to use. I've uncommented this in
my installation and it's worked pretty well for me, so can you please
uncomment/enable this by default in the distribution?
I'll check it but no time today.
btw ... as you like low level hacking ...
pdftex has a mechanism called pgc (pdf glyph containers) and these are
used when no pk font is found (which also means: no map entry)
\pdffont ... =
\pdfscale 1000
\pdfglyph 1 100 0 0 100 100
... pdf code ...
\pdfendglyph
\pdfendfont
of course one needs a matching tfm file. I searched my disk but it looks
like i removed all the test files of those times. It was some
playground for Thanh and me in the good old pdftex dev days but the
outlines from mp at that time were not good enough to use in these
containers. (It was when the mp to pdf conmverter showed up in context
mkii.) One or these now obsolete sub projects; it was kind of fun
anyway. Other experiments, like with saving positions (which originally
was a context feature that involved betweeen run dvi parsing with
dvipos) did make it into a stable feature eventually (read: documented).
The code is still there (in write3.c) but I bet that there is no
documentation.
Hans
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