[pdftex] AR 5 not working with pdftex?

[Hans Hagen]

At 08:07 AM 6/3/01 -0400, Y&Y Support wrote:

> It is the way the font is subsetted that needs fixing.
> It should not simply strip out Subrs that are no longer used.
> It should instead either
>         (i) renumber the Subrs to close the gaps
>         (ii) leave in the unused Subrs so no gaps appear.
>
> Of course, the ideal solution would be to fix rasterizers that
> treat missing Subrs as an error, but I am not sure anyone
> could hold their breath that long...

i can imagine a tool that postprocesses the pdf file by fixing the arrays
[adding dummies / replacing entries by short ones] with keeping the
nofbytes the same. 

Hans
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