[pdftex] AR 5 not working with pdftex?

[Robert Howlett]

Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> Please send me the PDF file that prints w/o problem.

Shall do

> 
> There still is a problem with subsetted fonts, and it has nothing to do with
> Encoding objects.
>

Absolutely -- but maybe Thanh can provide us with a workaround
by getting pdftex to avoid gaps in the Subrs array.
 
> Tom
> 
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Robert Howlett wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Tom Kacvinsky noticed a PDF error in a file I sent him.
> > The file was generated by
> > pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417
> > and the error is that there is a reference to an object
> > that doesn't exist. The missing object should be the
> > encoding vector for an embedded font.
> > I now think that *this* is the cause of one of the
> > printing problems I have seen, rather than a bug in
> > Acrobat Reader 5.0.
> > My tex file is
> >
> > \pdfcompresslevel=0
> > \nopagenumbers
> > $\Gamma$ fl fi \ss
> > \bye
> >
> > and the map file contains
> >
> > cmr10 CMR10 <<cmr10.pfb
> >
> > Printing from Acrobat Reader to a postscript printer
> > gave a blank piece of paper.
> >
> > However, when I changed the map file line to
> >
> > cmr10 CMR10 <<cmr10.pfb cmtext.enc
> >
> > then the pdftex put the encoding vector into the pdf file
> > -- no more missing object -- and now it printed OK.
> > (This appears to differ from the behaviour that Tom
> > observe, for some reason that I don't understand.)
> > However, the missing object when the map file does
> > not specify an encoding file certainly seems to be a bug.
> >
> > Bob Howlett
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> > >
> > > sundries1.pdf has a reference to an object that does not exist in
> > > the PDF
> > >
> >
> > and later
> >
> > > More info:
> > >
> > > I took one of the problematic files Bob sent me and added an Encoding object.
> > > No go.  For the fully embdedded font, Acrobat still thinks the font uses the
> > > built-in encoding, and not a custom encoding.  So the built-in encoding
> > > is used, and, again, the duplicate entries are stripped.  Foo!
> > >
> > > Tom
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