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Re: Fix for PDF output
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portnoy |
Subject: |
Re: Fix for PDF output |
Date: |
17 May 2001 06:38:13 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.7 |
Mark Hindley <address@hidden> writes:
> Where are you up to? Do you want some help?
I've converted all the existing PostScript routines to PDF specials,
and that part is working -- and a bit more readable than the set of
TeX macros we're currently using. The font problem is the ugly bit,
though.
> One thing I have got stuck with is the feta*.pfa fonts. If you try
> to use them to produce PDF with decent screen output they cause a
> buffer overflow in pdf{la}tex. Are they really Type 1? I have just
> got a copy of the spec, but haven't waded through it yet.
The PFA fonts are not Type 1, they're Type 3. And that's a big part
of the problem -- in order for PDFTeX to use them in a PDF file they
have to be converted into bitmaps, which kind of removes the
usefulness of having outline fonts in the first place. :-)
I've been wandering through the PDF spec myself, and it does have
support for Type 3 fonts. It might make sense to try to convert the
existing PFA's into Type3 fonts that the PDF engine can handle.
That's the bit I was starting to map out before I got overloaded with
other work. :-)
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- Fix for PDF output, Mark Hindley, 2001/05/15
- Re: Fix for PDF output, Stephen Peters, 2001/05/15
- Re: Fix for PDF output, Mark Hindley, 2001/05/17
- Re: Fix for PDF output, Anthony Fok, 2001/05/17
- Re: Fix for PDF output, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2001/05/17
- Re: Fix for PDF output,
portnoy <=
- Re: Fix for PDF output, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2001/05/17
- Re: Fix for PDF output, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2001/05/17
- Re: Fix for PDF output, Mats Bengtsson, 2001/05/17
Re: Fix for PDF output, Mats Bengtsson, 2001/05/17