Re: Problems with fonts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
>
>   
>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:09:38AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
>>     
>>> Same holds for \Omega. Actually, there is something wrong with the
>>> fonts; CMR fonts don't seem to be used. Here is an example:
>>>
>>> See caption for figures 4, 5, 6 etc. These should have a \Omega
>>> wherever there's a blank. Also move to the last page, the font
>>> rendering for math is far from OK. I am, in general, unhappy with the
>>> fonts: http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/ee03b091.pdf
>>>
>>> A similar document made with the old ConTeXt is:
>>> http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/ee03b091_nice.pdf
>>> The fonts render very well in Acrobat as well as have all
>>> symbols. This is what I was mentioning.
>>>       
>> And the TeX source (to the second document actually) with EPS images,
>> is at http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/compile.tar.bz2
>>     
>
> Works fine here, Windows XP, latest ConTeXt standalone from pragma, 
> and displays fine on Acrobat 7
>
> C:\Windows\system32\cmd /c pdffonts ee03b091.pdf
> name                                 type         emb sub uni object 
> ID
> ------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- 
> ---------
> CXCDEM+LMRoman10-CapsRegular         Type 1       yes yes yes      4 
> 0
> AHZACH+LMRoman10-Regular             Type 1       yes yes yes      5 
> 0
> NEZHVQ+LMTypewriter10-Regular        Type 1       yes yes yes      6 
> 0
> QGQEOY+LMRoman10-Bold                Type 1       yes yes yes      7 
> 0
> DDNRFR+LMMathItalic10-Italic         Type 1       yes yes yes     13 
> 0
> BWERNX+LMMathSymbols10-Italic        Type 1       yes yes yes     14 
> 0
> AHZACH+LMRoman10-Regular             Type 1       yes yes yes     15 
> 0
> TIIOKP+LMMathItalic7-Italic          Type 1       yes yes yes     16 
> 0
> ZVJQLW+LMMathSymbols7-Italic         Type 1       yes yes yes     17 
> 0
> DGERKI+LMMathItalic5-Italic          Type 1       yes yes yes     18 
> 0
> LRNKJI+LMRoman7-Regular              Type 1       yes yes yes     19 
> 0
> SPNZBI+LMTypewriter8-Regular         Type 1       yes yes yes     32 
> 0
>
>
> I noticed that in my result the third column (uni) says yes while in 
> yours it says no. I do not know if that is the cause of the problem
>   
that has to do with the tounicode vector, may differ per pdftex version, 
but should not influence the png

btw, if the testmachinery is okay, we should try luatex ... there may be 
differences due to more advanced font handling in context mkiv (no 
height/depth restrictions, reading from afm instead of tfm)

Hans

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