Re: Getting the PDF postscript fonts to work

[Siep <siep@elvenkind.com>]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:03:33 -0700
Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:41:49AM +1300, Berend de Boer wrote:
> > 
> > > in principle it's just a matter of mapping the right names onto
> > > Serif etc, once you know what the filenames are (maybe in some
> > > psfonts.map file you can deduce the raw names)
> > 
> > I thought I got them. pdftex is no longer including them, or list
> > them as included. However, in Adobe Acrobat Reader, when I look
> > at the included fonts, the names look like Microsoft TTF names.
> 
> You mentioned tetex, and your e-mail client is GNUS, so I imagine
> you're probably running Linux. I don't know if this helps at all,
> but I just checked out the fonts in my Acrobat installation
> (Acrobat Reader 5.0 on Linux). The fonts are actually PostScript
> files ... which I guess means that they are Type 42.

Run t1disasm on them and you'll see that they look suspiciously like
regular PostScript Type1 fonts, with glyphs described with the usual
PostScript operators.



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Siep Kroonenberg
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