Re: What's the ps_name of AdobeMingStd-Light?

["Zhichu Chen" <zhichu.chen@gmail.com>]

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On Dec 11, 2007 12:37 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Dec 10, 2007 4:58 PM, Zhichu Chen wrote:
> >
> > And
> > the second column is for the PS name of the font. I really don't know
> how to
> > write it because it has spaces in it, and when I replaced it with
> another PS
> > name that has no spaces or other special characters in it, say SimSun as
> a
> > common Simplified Chinese font in Windows, it worked fine.
> >
> > So, any suggestions?
>
> You can get the PS name of some font with otfinfo:
>       -p, --postscript-name
>            Print each font's PostScript name. For example:
>              MinionPro-SemiboldItCapt
> So:
>    otfinfo -p AdobeMingStd-Light.otf
> which returns
>    AdobeMingStd-Light
> here.
>
> But I would be a bit surprised if you would manage to make it work that
> way.

Yes, it doesn't work :(

I have seen some pdf files that Acrobat Reader can automatically download
fonts for them. I had thought that the reader may have some kind of font
list so that if some unusual (non-base) fonts are invoked, it will just down
them from the Adobe ftp. I guess I was wrong. I think I should read more
about those Adobe specials.

>
>
> Mojca
>
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