I used FontForge to rescale IM Fell to use 1000 unit emsqure, it then worked fine. I must say that I didn't like the way diacritics looked for "ç" and "º"...<br><br>Ekin<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Jonathan Kew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathan@jfkew.plus.com">jonathan@jfkew.plus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On 10 Feb 2009, at 22:21, Pepe Romero wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hello, I am testing in XeTeX the gorgeous Fell typefaces,<br>
> digitalized and issued freely by Igino Marini (<a href="http://iginomarini.com/fell/" target="_blank">http://iginomarini.com/fell/</a><br>
> ). (Please do try them.)<br>
> I have a problem, though. In XeTeX (latest TeX Live 2008) the<br>
> letters of the text appear typset one over another (as if there was<br>
> a kerning problem).<br>
> When using other software (e.g., QuarkXPress) the text is typset ok.<br>
> Any ideas?<br>
> Romero<br>
<br>
<br>
</div></div>This is a problem that shows up when using OpenType/CFF fonts that do<br>
not use the normal 1000-unit emsquare that is traditional for<br>
PostScript outlines. If you view the PDF with an older version of<br>
Acrobat Reader (e.g., version 5 or even 7, I think) the text will<br>
display correctly, but Reader 8 disregards the font matrix entry and<br>
this results in mis-scaled glyphs.<br>
<br>
I think that current versions of evince or other poppler-based viewers<br>
will also display correctly, but some older versions would have<br>
problems.<br>
<br>
There has been some previous discussion of this, as there are a couple<br>
of recent Adobe fonts that show the same problem. I think it can<br>
reasonably be considered a bug in the PDF reader(s), especially given<br>
how the behavior has changed between releases of Adobe's products, but<br>
I don't know if they will change it again to restore the previous<br>
behavior.<br>
<br>
Fixing it in xdvipdfmx would involve a change to how CFF fonts are<br>
handled; I'd be happy to accept a patch for this but have not had time<br>
to work on it myself.<br>
<br>
If you try the TrueType version of the fonts, those should work fine.<br>
Despite what the web page says, it looks like these also include the<br>
OpenType layout features -- at least the one I looked at did.<br>
<br>
JK<br>
<br>
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