[pdftex] a bug in pdfTeX 1.10a?

[Hans Hagen]

At 09:50 AM 10/21/2002 +0200, =?iso-8859-2?Q?Martin_Kola=F8=EDk?= wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I used pdfeTeX together with ConTeXt to arrange/duplicate/resize two A4
>pages to landscape A4. Resulting pages, of course, are of A5 size.
>
>This works, except fonts. The original A4 document contains embedded subset
>of font and Acroread displays it correctly -- all used glyphs are correct.
>But, if I arrange these pages, some of glyphs of fonts in resulting document
>are corrupted -- corruptions occur randomly in any of font and each new
>pdfeTeX run the corruption occurs in different place.
>
>I tested ConTeXt's \filterpages and \externalfigure, the direct use of
>pdfTeX's \pdf... I did not tested.
>
>Summary: The source document with embedded fonts, prepared in
>JawsPDFCreator, is displayed and printed in AR4/5 correctly. After
>joining/arranging pages, using pdfeTeX, randomly some of glyphs are
>corrupted in resulting document.
>
>Is this a bug of pdfTeX, or the problem is somewhere in other place?

it may depend on how pdftex interprets fonts and names, here i have removed 
all "FontName" entries in the map files.

Hans
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