[pdftex] Re: (fwd) dvips/pdftex: font / buffer overflow

[John S. Dey]

At 07:13 PM 12/19/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Funny: Your testchrimbob.pdf works here with Acroread, but not with xpdf
>2.0 (I get only crazy letters).

I took trebuchet MS and tried ttfont4pdftex on linux RH8.  Worked like a 
charm.  Worked on acroread, gv and xpdf version 1.01.



>Anyway, you include the font as True-Type, but I use the PostScript .PFB
>version, which is another software interface, and then it is definitely
>blocked within writet1.c, as long as the T1_BUF_SIZE isn't increased.
>
>I'm currently writing cards, with T1_BUF_SIZE = 16384, which works, for
>both dvips and pdftex.
>
>The PS Ref. manual, section B.1 tells typical implementation limit for
>string size would be 65536. If this is the parameter (hard to tell), it
>is really higher than the current T1_BUF_SIZE.
>
>Merry Christmas!
>
>Hartmut
>
>
>On 19 Dec 2002, Kester Clegg wrote:
>
> > Hartmut Henkel <hartmut_henkel at gmx.de> writes:
> >
> > > One has to admit, that this chrimbobat font (legally) stretches the idea
> > > of a `font' to its limits. It would better be an assortment of .eps
> > > files. But still it has a letter (m) made by Erik Spiekermann, so it got
> > > its blessings from a top-notch typographer :-)
> > >
> > > If one increases this parameter T1_BUF_SIZE to 16384, it might work
> > > well---maybe until christmas '03...
> >
> > I renamed the CHRIMBOB.TTF to chrimbob.ttf, and ran my script on it:
> >
> > http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kester/scripts/ttfont4pdftex
> >
> > and it loaded up a pdf with all the fonts just fine:
> >
> > http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kester/scripts/testchrimbob.pdf
> >
> > so it works for pdftex, at least.
>
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