[pdftex] AR 5 not working with pdftex?

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Mon Jun 4 12:23:46 CEST 2001


At 11:35 AM 6/3/01 -0400, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
>I tend to think that the problem is with how Acrobat writes out the PS
code that
>goes to the printer.  Obviously, the font renderer in Acrobat has no problems
>with gaps in the Subrs array, because the glyphs get rendered just fine on
>screen.
>
>The more interesting thing to see right now is the PS code emitted from
Acrobat
>at print time, or information on the printer being used.  The reason for the
>latter is that if Acrobat sends the font to the PS file unaltered, the
problem
>has to be with the printer's PS (or clone PS) interpreter.

Isn't it just pdf that is sent to the printer with a pdftops header? In
that case, the header is the problem, isn't it? 

It would be interesting to feed back the exported ps to distiller and see
what happens.

Hans 
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