Re: problem with Courier-BoldOblique

[Just van Rossum]

At 8:04 AM -0400 19-07-2000, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
>They are compliant Type 1 fonts.  They are synthetic fonts, and
>synthetic fonts are described in the Type 1 specification.  Helvetica,
>as distributed by Adobe (!), is a synthetic font, etc...

The Adobe Helvetica-Oblique I have here (which came with ATM) just has a
slanting FontMatrix; it does contain all the CharStrings, so it's a
perfectly normal T1 font. I also thought sythetic fonts weren't valid Type
1 font, as it's a PS trick that copies an existing font, renames it and
replaces the FontMatrix (or so I thought...). The word "sythetic" doesn't
appear in my copy of the T1 spec. Do you have a reference?

Just