Re: Proposed patch (Was: Font problems with 2.5.27 on MacOS)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Matthias Neeracher wrote:
> > Yes,  I guess that's best. I'd be grateful if you could find out  how 
> > we can properly embed a dfont file. I know that there are  utilities 
> > for extracting TTFs from dfonts.
>
>
> I think I found a solution that is reasonably general: Why not pass  all 
> unknown font files to fontforge for pfa conversion? 

I don't like this option because we would have to ship FontForge with 
the standalone LilyPond on MacOS. FF is big, depends on X11, running it 
is slow, and it doesn't have a clear versioning scheme.  In any case, 
the relevant code should be implemented on the Scheme side. This is only 
an option for the fink version.

AFAIK, a .dfont is an archive of several TTFs, and should be possible to 
extract the right TTF font from the .dfont directly. Perhaps by 
borrowing code from the Fondu utility.

> this seems to work for the western font case. It *almost* seems to  make 
> xiao-haizi-guai-guai work too: the generated .ps has all fonts  
> embedded, but somehow still fails pdf conversion.

That should not be a surprise. The chinese/japanese fonts are shipped as 
OTF and TTF, which are already correctly embedded by Lily. No need for 
fontforge there.


--
 Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen