pdftex + truetype + reencoding : more

Han The Thanh thanh at informatics.muni.cz
Fri Dec 18 11:11:10 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, 

I did it in earlier version, but it didn't help. So I've removed this feature
from 0.12r. In fact Acrobat Reader has problem with TT fonts that have not been
installed as well. The only solution seems to be that AcroReader stops using TTF
rendering mechanism of Windows.

Thanh



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