> Our complication is that we must be placing outline points alongside > reading the hints, and adjusting the former accordingly.
OK, makes sense. So it seems boiling down to the question how to optimally hint Type1, right? >> . Test with Acroread whether Type1 fonts and its CFF conversions >> yield identical rendering results. > > Sorry, I'm not sure how I should go about this. I went with > exporting PDF from LibreOffice, but when I opened that in Acroread I > get LCD rendering (see attached). Well, yes. > They're certainly the two different formats (looking at the line > gap), and the problematic glyph "u" looks hinted correctly. OK. > However, to reproduce the results from ftgrid, I'll need it to > render in monochrome. Monochrome? Please explain. I think there no longer exists an environment where Acroread would return monochrome images... > What do you do to test fonts with Acroread? Nothing special. In most cases, people report a problem with a font already embedded in a PDF. > If only there is a utility that could take in a font file, and > generate a pdf with all glyphs? Attached are two solutions for xelatex; you just have to set the right font (using font names returned by fontconfig's `fc-list') in the `\setmainfont' macro, then call xelatex charlist for the compact version or xelatex charlistx for a version that shows character codes also (using the same font). [This should work on Windows and Macs also, BTW – I assume that you have TeXLive installed :-)] > [...] > > What I draw from this is that a bad Type1 font (actually not the > font, but the way we do hinting doesn't allow mid-charstring hints) > can be made compliant to the spec, i.e. all hints declared at the > start by, and only by, making an extra preprocessing/conversion > pass. OK. So it seems we have to go this route. Given that Type 1 fonts are no longer important today (combined with faster and faster computers), we certainly can live with a second pass. Werner
\documentclass{article} \input{binhex} \usepackage[margin=1cm]{geometry} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Linux Libertine O} \usepackage{multicol} \usepackage{multido} \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \begin{document} \multido{\i=0+1}{"110000}{% from U+0000 to U+10FFFF \iffontchar\font\i \symbol{\i}\, \fi } \end{document}
\documentclass[landscape]{article} \input{binhex} \usepackage[margin=1cm]{geometry} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Linux Libertine O} \usepackage{multicol} \usepackage{multido} \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \begin{document} \begin{multicols}{9} \multido{\i=0+1}{"110000}{% from U+0000 to U+10FFFF \iffontchar\font\i \makebox[5em][l]{0x\nhex{4}{\i}}% \symbol{\i}\endgraf \fi } \end{multicols} \end{document}
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