[pdftex] font inclusion

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Fri Apr 2 02:40:42 CEST 2010


2010/4/2 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:
> sometimes pdftex inserts a font twice with the same random prefix.  We
> have a lot of font samples and test files in VnTeX and though they are
> all created the same way, only very few of the created PDF files show
> this behavior.  One of them is t5cyklop-test.pdf .
>
> $ pdffonts t5cyklop-test.pdf
> name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
> GFOBEK+CMTT10                        Type 1            yes yes yes     10  0
> HERLWI+Cyklop-Regular                Type 1            yes yes yes     11  0
> QPKIYS+Cyklop-Italic                 Type 1            yes yes yes     12  0
> HERLWI+Cyklop-Regular                Type 1            yes yes yes     13  0
> QPKIYS+Cyklop-Italic                 Type 1            yes yes yes     14  0

I think if you dig into the PDF you'll see that the duplicate files
only duplicate the FontDescriptors; the actual font files are only
included once. But pdffonts counts the FontDescriptors.

Best
   Martin



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