[texworks] Poppler fonts

[Paul A Norman]

Apparently looking for type1 fonts?

Paul

name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
Times-Roman                          Type 1            no  no  no       7  0
Times-Bold                           Type 1            no  no  no       8  0
Times-Italic                         Type 1            no  no  no       9  0
Times-BoldItalic                     Type 1            no  no  no      10  0
Helvetica                            Type 1            no  no  no      11  0
Helvetica-Bold                       Type 1            no  no  no      12  0
Helvetica-Oblique                    Type 1            no  no  no      13  0
Helvetica-BoldOblique                Type 1            no  no  no      14  0
Courier                              Type 1            no  no  no      15  0
Courier-Bold                         Type 1            no  no  no      16  0
Courier-Oblique                      Type 1            no  no  no      17  0
Courier-BoldOblique                  Type 1            no  no  no      18  0
Symbol                               Type 1            no  no  no      19  0
ZapfDingbats                         Type 1            no  no  no      20  0

<Embedded_fonts>Courier >> + Courier-Bold >> + Courier-BoldOblique >> +
Courier-Oblique >> + Helvetica >> + Helvetica-Bold >> +
Helvetica-BoldOblique >> + Helvetica-Oblique >> + Symbol >> + Times-Bold >>
+ Times-BoldItalic >> + Times-Italic >> + Times-Roman >> + ZapfDingbats >> +
</Embedded_fonts>

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13401476/TeXworks/base14-fonts.pdf.xml

On 31 March 2011 21:27, Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok,
>
> Had as spare moment, used you file Stefan, thanks for that was thinking
> that was the next step.
>
> Did the same thing as I did before with Duncan's pdf, opened Stefan's file
> with,
>
> 1. the Tw new fonts folder in place,
>
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13401476/general_images/Tw-Stefans-base14-fonts-with-Tw-fonts_folder.jpg
>
>
>
> 2. and then again with the fonts folder not available,
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13401476/general_images/Tw-Stefans-base14-fonts-with-Tw-fonts_folder-renamed.jpg
>
>
>
> 3. and then again fonts folder available. and that worked again as in 1
> above
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 31 March 2011 19:21, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2011-03-30 23:24, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> >> On 2011-03-30 at 19:57:07 +0100, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> >>
> >>  > IMO, it would be preferable to configure poppler (for the Windows
> >>  > build) so that it uses the standard TrueType Times/Arial/Courier
> >>  > fonts from the Windows fonts directory. It shouldn't be necessary
> >>  > to bundle these fonts with the program.
> >
> > Good point (assuming that the standard TTFs are acceptable regarding
> > style, metrics, etc.; though I assume they are, since they are already
> > mentioned in the poppler sources).
> >
> >> I don't have Windows, hence I can't try myself, but TeXworks's
> >> poppler-font-handler.patch contains stuff like:
> >>
> >> static struct {
> >>      {"Times-Italic",          "n021023l.pfb", "timesi.ttf"},
> >>      {"Times-Roman",           "n021003l.pfb", "times.ttf"},
> >>
> >> Maybe the TrueType fonts are used as fallback fonts already and
> >> nothing has to be changed in the code, at least if poppler knows where
> >> to look for them.
> >>
> >> Maybe someone could try under Windows to remove (or rename) the
> >> "fonts" directory in order to find out whether the TrueType fonts are
> >> found instead.
> >
> > I just checked. The only file that seems necessary for proper execution
> > is d050000l.pfb (ZapfDingbat), since there doesn't seem to be a proper
> > substitute available (in the poppler sources, wingdings.ttf is
> > suggested, but according to Jonathan's patch this is wrong).
> > For all others, the TTFs can be used (and are, if the .pfb files are
> > absent).
> > Can somebody shed some light on which other files should be kept
> > (fonts.*, readmes, ...)?
> > With your permission, Reinhard, (or that of whoever is relevant for
> > this), I probably will commit that font directory to the repository with
> > the relevant TL files if it indeed is just one or two files.
> >
> > For future reference, I've created a test document (see attachement)
> > that uses all 14 base fonts without embedding them. I'll probably commit
> > them to svn under some new testcase folder later.
> >
> >> If the "fonts" directory is removed and the manual pages are displayed
> >> though, then obviously nothing has to be changed in the code.
> >
> > As Paul already pointed out, this whole font business was started by the
> > missing Zapf Dingbat issue some time ago. So, completely removing the
> > fonts folder is not an option, as that was added as a result of the
> > missing font issue. On the other hand, most (all?) of the other fonts
> > can probably be removed - if they would have been necessary, problems
> > would almost certainly have occurred much earlier.
> >
> >> This would be fine because people then can still throw the Type1 fonts
> >> into the "fonts" directory if they prefer Helvetica to Arial.
> >
> > Indeed.
> >
> > HTH
> > Stefan
> >
>
>
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