[cl-pdf-devel] Added unicode-readme.txt and an example

Marc Battyani marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com
Tue Nov 1 21:46:08 UTC 2005


Aleksandar Bakic wrote:

>I check out your new code, applied my sb-unicode/use-uffi-zlib related
>patches,
>and everything seems to work.

Good

>I think the following needs some resolution, too:
>
>1. I am not sure whether the generated PDF is correct if a TTF file
argument
>is
>not provided to load-ttu-font. First, I don't think a file reference is
>generated in that case, and second, PDF Reference 1.6 mentions some cases
>when
>a font must be embedded (after around page 400; in particular, 416).

Embedding the font is a goodidea otherwise a Windows pdf can't be read on a
Mac or Linux for example.

>2. I didn't know the official ttf2pt1 could be used; it seemed to me that
>ttf2ufm was an extension of it (at least, that's what I read...). I used my
>previously generated fonts and did not try ttf2pt1.

I just checked and it don't work.
I will modify it to generate the encoding and the metrics in one file Using
2 files is not clean.

Marc




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