[OS X TeX] altpdflatex and font problems

[Kyle Johnson]

I have recently converted an Adobe minion otf font into the requisite 
pfb, afm, etc. files and installed it for use under Gerban's teTex 
installation. I've messed with the mapping a little bit, so that, for 
instance, an alternative swashed "k" is in place of the regular "k", 
and modified the afm/tfm files accordingly. So, except for these 
changes, I've reproduced the 8x encoding in the first 256 slots of the 
pfb file created from minion.otf by otftotfm. This runs perfectly on 
pdflatex. Unfortunately it doesn't run fine on altpdflatex, under 
either TeXShop or iTexMac. In particular, what doesn't work are any of 
the glyphs that I've copied by hand into the spots to create that 8x 
encoding -- not the lower case figures, for instance, of the ffi and 
ffl ligatures, nor the whimsical "k" substitutions I made. I must use 
altpdflatex, however, as I use a tree-drawing program that needs to PS.

Does anyone have an idea why running through postscript -- that's the 
central difference between altpdflatex and pdflatex, right? -- would 
have this effect?

Many thanks.
Kyle



On Jul 30, 2004, at 9:53 AM, MAEDA Wataru wrote:

> Hi,
> I uploaded new RPN2TeX.　
>
> RPN2TeX version 0.7 includes some improvements and bug fixes.
> Main features are below.
> - Displaying preview images with pdflatex.
> - User-definable operators.
> - Scrolling automatically as you can see the bottom stack.
> - Keeping the position of windows.
> - Entering symbols from panel.
>
> Some features are based on advices in this mailing list.
> Thank you for using my software and helpful advices.
>
> RPN2TeX webpage:
> http://homepage.mac.com/wataru_maeda/software/RPN2TeX/index.html
>
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