Re(2): Italic open-o in omega

"Yannis Haralambous" <[email protected]> Sat, 31 May 2003 11:37:01 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.omega.user
Organization ENST Bretagne
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>The technic I used is derived on the method to use japanese fonts with=20
>Omega.
>
>I'll document what I've done soon.
>In fact, in the japanese w32tex distribution there's a lot available to=20
>do that.

if you mean converting TTF to PK, that's a very bad solution: PKs are
converted to PostScript type 3 by dvips, and Acrobat is allergic to type =
3.
Furthermore, in PK fonts glyphs have no names, and this means that Acroba=
t
cannot make the mapping to Unicode anymore: no copy-and-paste, no searche=
s,
no indexing. And display suffers as well. No that at last all tools are
there to work with vector fonts we will not start using bitmaps again!...

Our approach is to produce small type 1 fonts with only the glyphs needed
in the documents. These glyphs have adequate names so that Acrobat knows
which Unicode characters they represent.

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Yannis Haralambous, Ph.D.      [email protected] |
| Professor                                   Tel. +33 2.29.00.14.27 |
|                                             Fax  +33 2.29.00.12.82 |
| Computer Science Department                                        |
| =C9cole Nationale Sup=E9rieure des T=E9l=E9communications de Bretagne  =
    |
| Technop=F4le de Brest Iroise, CS 83818, 29238 Brest CEDEX, France    |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
                         ...pour distinguer l'ext=E9rieur d'un aquarium,=20
                                        mieux vaut n'=EAtre pas poisson

                        ...the ball I threw while playing in the park
                                       has not yet reached the ground