[pdftex] Font (embedding) problem

[George N. White III]

On 3/25/07, Marcel Korpel <marcel.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23/03/07, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
> > Please provide a small .tex file (one which does not use many
> > different fonts) which shows this problem.
>
> It's rather difficult to explain it this way, but I'll try. For
> instance, I use the open type font Garamond. It comes with many
> different flavours in one file: e.g., it contains superscript
> characters, old-style figures and lining figures.
>
> Using LCDF-tools I created one big PFB-file and several encoding
> files. I can embed those fonts using
>
> \font\rm=Garamond at 11pt
> \font\rmtb=Garamond-TableFigures at 11pt
> \font\su=Garamond-Superscripts at 11pt
>
> \rm These 12 things are nice to learn.{\su 3}
>
> Because these fonts are all embedded using the same PFB-file, the
> resulting PDF-file contains several instances of 'Garamond'. Some
> printers only use the first instance (with old-style figures) for all
> 1's, while the 3's are all printed as lining figures, indepent of
> which flavour I chose. In short, the printer just choses one flavour
> (one encoding) for each character. I want to stress this is only what
> this printer prints, on the screen and on several printers things are
> shown correctly.
>
> Of course, this IS a printer bug, but as some of the people who read
> my texts use those printers, I would like to solve this (and using
> Ghostscript I actually solved it, but it is a bit cumbersome, of
> course).

Have you considered using the OpenType font directly with xetex?  The
Zapfino example on the home page <http://scripts.sil.org/xetex> uses
alternate glyphs in a document based on plain tex.

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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia