Re: Ghostscript 9.26 cannot embed CID fonts

[Knut Petersen]

On 02.01.19 14:27, Knut Petersen wrote:
> On 15.12.18 15:42, Masamichi Hosoda wrote:
> > I've noticed that gs-9.26 cannot embed CID fonts
> > for the extractpdfmark method.
> >
> > In the method, we defined fonts in PostScript, and use it in PDF.
> > gs-9.26 cannot define the fonts for PDF in PostScript.
> > https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700367#c4
>
> The big problem is that the possible workaround ( use of 'gs -I<path> ...' ) is 
> broken too.

Since a bit more than an hour  ghostscript 9.28 has been fixed (commits 
e005c87e09f6 and eec855c9baea in ghostpdl master).

Two workarounds are possible:

1: put the cid fonts in a CIDFont directory and use the -I command line argument

2: define CID fonts in a postscript file and feed that to ghostscript. As an 
example I give the necessary code for defining a non-standard cid version of 
Emmentalter-Brace:

   /lilypond-datadir where { pop } { userdict /lilypond-datadir 
(/home/knut/sources/lilybuilt/share/lilypond/2.21.0) put } ifelse

   lilypond-datadir (/fonts/otf/emmentaler-brace.cid) concatstrings (r) file 
.loadfont
   /Emmentaler-Brace /CIDFont findresource
   << exch {} forall /Path lilypond-datadir (/fonts/otf/emmentaler-brace.cid) 
concatstrings >>
   /Emmentaler-Brace exch /CIDFont defineresource pop
   /Emmentaler-Brace  /Identity-H [ /Emmentaler-Brace ] composefont  pop

For details see the discussion in 
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700436

Knut