[pdftex] Symbol font display problems with acroread

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Wed Apr 4 20:05:34 CEST 2007


2007/4/4, Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de>:
> This is a bug. The fontflags are initialized in mapfile.c as 4
> (symbolic font), and writefont.c sees this value as being the default
> and changes it to 34. :-(

One can argue that the input is buggy because no fontflags are given;
but even if fontflags are given as 4, this is overridden as 34. Also
the pdfTeX manual states in section 5.1 that the default for fontflags
is 4, so this should work.

Best
   Martin


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