Re: What's the ps_name of AdobeMingStd-Light?

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

2007/12/10, Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen@gmail.com>:
> Hi, Wolfgang
>
> On Dec 11, 2007 12:05 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
> <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 2007/12/10, Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen@gmail.com>:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > Hi Chen,
> >
> > can't you ue XeTeX or LuaTeX for your document instead of pdfTeX,
> > it will be easier for you because you don't need tfm and map files
> > and you need only the typescripts.

> I don't know, but in this case, I don't want to embed fonts, I don't know
> how LuaTeX can do that but it runs really slow on my ancient PC, especially
> on the first time when it's generating font cache.

This is funny because the following comment is from font-otf.lua

   -- han (chinese) (unfinished)

    -- this info eventually will go into char-def

    -- list by Zhichu Chen

list of left and right delimiters for chinese

You should try XeTeX for the moment and not LuaTeX, the first is as fast
as pdfTeX while the second is currently not really usable for CJK.

> > > I searched the mail list for a while and I got that if I didn't specify the
> > > font file, it will not be embeded and Acrobat Reader will just use its
> > > own fonts to show the characters.
> > >
> > > I want to make some Chinese documents and I think if I don't embed any
> > > fonts, it will be much smaller than it used to be. And there is a cool font
> > > AdobeMingStd-Light.otf coming along with Acrobat Reader so I wish I can
> > > use it. I converted it to ttf and then tfm files (I don't know whether it is
> > > legal) and write the map file like:
> >
> > pdfTeX can use OpenType fonts and you don't have to convert them
> > into TrueType format.

> I convert it to ttf only because I want the tfm files, I can't find there's
> a tool that can to otf2tfm. And then I deleted the ttf and the otf fonts
> because I don't want to embed them so I don't need them any more.

A opentype to tfm converter is included in the LCDF Typetools
http://www.lcdf.org/type/index.html, I used for a short time in the past
but use now the modern backends instead of pdfTeX.

> > > uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-00 "Adobe Ming Std" " Unicode00Encoding
> ReEncodeFont
> > > " <uni-00.enc
> > > ================================
> > > I think the first column is for the tfm files, and I do get the
> > > uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-00.tfm to uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-ff.tfm files. And
> > > the second column is for the PS name of the font. I really don't know how to
> > > write it because it has spaces in it, and when I replaced it with another PS
> > > name that has no spaces or other special characters in it, say SimSun as
> > > a  common Simplified Chinese font in Windows, it worked fine.
> > >
> > > So, any suggestions?
> >
> > XeTeX or LuaTeX.

> Anyway, thank you for paying attention to my stupid and almost useless
> topic.

Don't say this, font questions are never useless.

Wolfgang
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