[pdftex] pdftex - Support for Type3 fonts

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2016-08-04 at 00:14:51 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:

 > On Thursday 04 August 2016 00:07:52 Karl Berry wrote:
 > >     Is there any way to download external Type3 font into output
 > >     PDF
 > > 
 > > I'm afraid I have nothing to offer here, and it's nothing I'm
 > > likely to implement in the foreseeable future.  Sorry.  Maybe you
 > > could develop a patch?  -k
 > 
 > Ok thank you for answer. As I understand you Type3 fonts are not
 > supported by pdftex.

The problem is that Type 3 fonts can contain arbitrary PostScript code
and thus require a full-fledged PostScript interpreter.

Can't you convert the fonts to Type 1 somehow in advance?

Regards,
  Reinhard
  
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