Re: [ft] Issues with fonts embedded in PDF

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Our test file
> (http://www.intelsig.be/~piater/nobackup/fop/fop-trunk.pdf) contains
> eight embedded TrueType fonts, and is displayed correctly by
> Acroread. However, four of these fonts (FreeSerif, latex-xft cmr10,
> LinuxLibertine, STIXGeneral converted from OTF using fontforge) just
> leave blanks when viewed by xpdf, gv, kpdf, or evince (but
> copy&paste ok); the other four are rendered ok (BitstreamVeraSerif,
> DejaVuSerif, LiberationSerif, GentiumBasic).

xpdf reports `cid2' loading failures, whatever this is.  Note that
xpdf and friends all use the xpdf library, AFAIK.

> Since all of these four viewers use FreeType, it looks like it might
> be a FreeType issue; on the other hand, all of these fonts are
> displayed correctly by ftview. Or perhaps it is an embedding (Fop)
> issue, but acroread has no trouble.

I suspect a problem with CID handling.

> How to narrow the problem down?  Is there anything abnormal about
> this PDF file?

You should perhaps contact Derek Noonburg <address@hidden>
directly and ask for assistance.


    Werner