[pdftex] Patch for longstanding pdftex font subsetting bug

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Sun Mar 22 01:19:13 CET 2009


2009/3/21, Melissa O'Neill <oneill at cs.hmc.edu>:
> The enclosed patch fixes a longstanding bug in font subsetting for pdflatex
> that has existed since 1.20a-rc1 (March 2004).  This bug has been causing
> problems for Mac users for some time because OS X does not like the subtly
> invalid fonts that pdflatex can output (but it may have affected others as
> well).

Thanks for finding the bug and fixing it; it had (of course) been
incorporated into LuaTeX, where I adopted your patch.

Best
   Martin


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