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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: 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 16:34:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6A9E11.80408@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100817130534.GB19503@khaled-laptop>

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]

> 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).

Best wishes,
Taco

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-17 14:34 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2010-08-17 14:48       ` Khaled Hosny

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