[pdftex] inclusion of PDF file fails

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2012-01-24 at 15:18:55 -0500, john Culleton wrote:

 > 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?

PdfTeX aims for stability now.  It already supports everything which
can be supported by a system which extends Knuth's TeX,  adding
support for Unicode and OTF would mean to write it from scratch, more
or less.

It's still maintained.  In this respect, it's similar to Knuth's TeX.

Is there anything you are missing?

Regards,
  Reinhard

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