pdftex + truetype + reencoding : more

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Fri Dec 18 10:31:48 CET 1998


Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> This is what ghostscript does and this explains why GS is OK while the
> Reader isn't. For the Reader, *any* locally installed font takes
> precedence over the one included in the PDF doc. This is true on all
> systems the Reader runs on, and Adobe considers this to be a feature.

So, maybe it makes sense to let pdftex change the embedded fontnames
into random ones (or using random prefixes), not only for the logical
names, but also for all id's used in the font descriptors, 

Hans

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