Re: howto use non-embedded TeX fonts in acrobat reader

[Karsten Tinnefeld <tinne@noether.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Cheerio,

Taco wrote:
> I tried 6 out of the 8 files on Dante CTAN and they were all OK. The
> CMRs *are* embedded as subsets, which seems to be misinterpreted by
> your version of the Reader.

We are both talking about the source code documentation are we? Then, I 
have a problem.

> The most important variable in any problem with the Reader is (as
> always) the version number of the Reader itself. Make sure you have
> the latest reader from Adobe's ftp site.

I tried with version 3.01 first, which is the latest version with full 
text search. There is another version 3.02 without search that does not 
make a change (and calls itself v. 3.01 during installation). I am only 
talking about SUN Solaris stuff.

> Besides that, you are strongly advised to take the Context files
> from the NTG web server http://www.ntg.nl/context/ since the CTAN
> mirror is not always up-to-date.

This site has definitely other kinds of documentation: the source code 
documentation files I was talking about are not in any .zip file. Most 
of these *.pdf's that are ok to me (though it shows that there is no 
JavaScript interpreter in my reader), but e.g. ms-co-nl.pdf is broken. 
It has lines as "/BaseFont /GPFLKA+CMR10", what does GPFLKA+ mean? 
Are there any differences between m?-co* and m?-cb* ?

> Third point that may be of interest: if you want to tell the Reader to
> use platform fonts, chances are pretty high that they have to be PFA
> format instead of PFB format. So you will probably have to run
> pfbtopfa or t1ascii on the files first.

They used to be pfb's, right. I used the pfb2pfa program that comes with 
tetex (some early August 98 version). Now I have a lot of nice .pfa 
files. A very neat idea to generate as my X server now can display them.
Anyway, acroread is unaffected :(.
-- 
Karsten Tinnefeld
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