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At 3:09 PM -0400 9/3/03, Robert S. Kissel wrote:
> I am assuming you mean a fully embedded one, and not a subset > one, yes? Actually, I'd like to see a very clear, simple example of both.
For Type 1, open source projects like PDFLib Lite, Panda, and iText all demonstrate how to do full embed of a Type 1 font. Most folks don't bother with subsetting them since they are pretty small to begin with.
For Type 0/Composite fonts, look at iText. It is able to do subset embedding and creation of Unicode fonts.
> What do you mean by a "composite font"? Type 0? I suppose so...I was using the PostScript term...a font that has other fonts as children.
Type 0/CID fonts...
While we're on this subject, is there a known bug about using these in PDF?
Not as long as you are using Adobe Acrobat 4.0 and later. v3 didn't know how to handle them, and other PDF viewer vary as well...
A lot of PostScript interpreters did the wrong things with such fonts--for the longest time, GhostScript went to blazes if you did a stringwidth operation on a string in such a font.
The current 8.11 version of GS will handle them quite well...
Yes, and for very large character sets--like we need. It's sort of a long story--but suffice it to say that I already HAVE the fonts (in PostScript) and essentially, all I really want to know is how to pull the PostScript apart and make the right PDF creatures to utilize them with the PDF operators.
Check out the current GS sources...
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