From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: news3@nililand.de, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: some mac fonts do not work correctly
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:04:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c30b3fd6-7ae9-a9b7-aa4a-2cb9613efa14@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <camx7z4hm9tf.dlg@nililand.de>
On 7/23/2019 8:49 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Hello Hans,
>
> we got a bug report that some (proprietary) mac fonts don't work
> correctly. The reason seem to be that the OpenType cmap format used
> by these fonts isn't supported by the fontloader.
>
> The necessary cmap formats are "platform 0 (Unicode), encoding 1
> (Unicode 1.1(?)), format 12" and maybe as a fallback "platform 1
> (Mac), encoding 0 (Roman), format 0".
>
> A test would be
>
> \starttext
> \font\oddfont="Big Caslon Medium" \oddfont A
> \stoptext
what filename ... when i copy ACaslonPro-Regular from a (by now obsolete
and old) mac it seems to work
Hans
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-23 18:49 Ulrike Fischer
2019-07-24 9:04 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2019-07-24 9:47 ` Ulrike Fischer
2019-07-24 10:03 ` Hans Hagen
2019-07-25 12:57 ` Ulrike Fischer
2019-07-25 13:32 ` Hans Hagen
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