Re: MKIV, fonts, confusion

[luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:

>
>
> luigi scarso wrote:
> >     > So I don't understand how OO "transform" this opentype in a Type1 ,
> >
> >     I guess that that is not hard when a document uses no more than 256
> >     glyphs from the font.
> >
> >
> > yes, a sort of creation of font encodings at fly for more than 256
> > glyphs -- but why ?
>
> Maybe to get around that bug^H^H^Hfeature in AR8 and AR9

it's a bug of AR8 and AR9 , IMHO .
AR7 shows it ok;
AR5 says it's a broken  pdf .


> > Also, does it fix em size, given that this appears to be the root of the
> > problem ?
>
> No, it fixes nothing. It just works around the issue. The cause of
> the problem is that AR8 and AR9 *require* Type0 fonts to have 1000
> units/em, otherwise the glyph drawing routine outputs an incorrectly
> scaled object. There is no such limitation for Type1C fonts, and
> that is why it works ok there (at least for now, who knows what AR10
> will bring ...)
>
And aren't we able to do the same trick -- even with a lots of unreadable
macros -- in luatex ?

-- 
luigi

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