[pdftex] inclusion of PDF file fails

[john Culleton]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:42:04 +0100
Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 2012/1/22 Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org>:
> >
> > A month ago I wrote:
> >
> >> I consider this a bug in pdftex.
> >>
> >> While the `CenturySchL-Roma' font embedded in `BFEx.pdf' is version
> >> 1.06 (file `c059013l.pfb' from ghostscript), pdftex uses
> >> `uncr8a.pfb' from TeXLive, which is version 1.05.  Obviously,
> >> version 1.05 misses all Cyrillic glyphs.  IMHO, the right solution
> >> is to allow font merging only if the font versions are identical.
> >
> > Is someone going to fix this?
> 
> Development for PDFTeX has essentially stopped, so I wouldn't hold my
> breath.

Why? Is it because all resources wre devoted to luatex?

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