pdftex + truetype + reencoding : more

[Philip A. Viton]

I've done a bit of experimenting here, and it looks to me as if the encoding
vector is not being handled properly for TT fonts (WinNT4; AcroReader3.01;
pdftex 12r):

a. with the relevant line of cm.map reading

    cmr10 Cmr10 <<cmr10.ttf <cmtext.enc

   the pdf document shows no ligs; fhe File/DocInfo/Fonts listing shows
   cmr10 as a truetype font with encoding "builtin", which is surely wrong?

b. this is not specific to the Kinch version of the tt fonts: the tt
version of the Bakoma fonts have the same problem.

c. for comparison, using a pfb version of cmr10, the ligs display correctly; 
   under Font Info the encoding is listed as "custom". 

So if the TT version lists the encoding as "builtin", while PFB shows
"custom" maybe that's the source of the problem?  (Or maybe I don't
understand encodings?)




At 03:24 PM 12/15/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Can anyone confirm whether pdftex 12r correctly re-encodes true-type (TT)
>fonts? I'm using the system with the TT fonts from Kinch (TrueTeX) and
>can't get the cmr ligatures to display. 
>
>pdftex finds the TT fonts and the encoding vector cmtext.enc; but the
>ligatures show up as empty boxes. processing the test file through pdftex
>with \pdfoutput=0 gives the correct results, if that's any help.
>
>Also, the message about pdftex at cstug refers to  the file enc-note from
>Petr Oslak - this doesn't seem to be on the system, or did I miss it?
>
>Philip A. Viton
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>City Planning, Ohio State University
>viton.1 at osu.edu
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Philip A. Viton
City Planning, Ohio State University
190 W. 17th Ave,Columbus OH 43210
viton.1 at osu.edu