From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX, font licensing
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:48:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100817144815.GD20956@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C6A9E11.80408@elvenkind.com>
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 04:34:57PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> On 08/17/2010 03:05 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Do PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX "subset the font" in this way?
> >>
> >>Yes, this is the default. So unless you have manually interfered, the
> >>included fonts are always subsetted.
> >
> >I'm interested in the other way around, how can I tell luatex (or
> >context) to not subset the font,
>
> \enabledirectives[fonts.embedall]
Thanks.
> >and I read that some recent version of
> >PDF specification allow embedding of unchanged opentype fonts (as
> >compared to converting them to type1 fonts), does luatex support (or
> >plan to support) that feature?
>
> In LuaTeX, we are not converting to Type1, OpenType fonts are always
> embedded as CID Type0C, Truetype as CID TrueType. But some OT tables
> are stripped for efficiency reasons (GSUB and GPOS, for example).
I can't tell a difference :) I'm just interested in being able to
extract the full font from PDF with all tables and stuff (they are my
fonts, so the legal side is sorted out), but I don't actually have a use
case for that :)
Regards,
Khaled
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-17 6:47 John Magolske
2010-08-17 6:47 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-17 7:30 ` Giulio Bertellini
2010-08-17 7:34 ` Hongwen Qiu
2010-08-17 18:18 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2010-08-17 20:27 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-17 13:05 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-08-17 14:34 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-17 14:48 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
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