Re: pdftex - Encoding for metafont PK fonts

Ross Moore <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.pdftex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Pali,

On Jun 27, 2016, at 7:11 AM, Pali Rohár <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Yes! And that glyph name for each numberical value (index) is
available in encode file (csr.enc). This is reason why I'm tryint
to tell pdftex:

"hey pdftex, please use csr.enc for my csb12 PK font, it contains
mapping index --> glyph name which you need to building cmap file”

OK. But why do you need  csb12  ?
That is, why not  csbx12  which *is* available in PFB format,
and is properly mapped.
viz.
SCI:vector ross$ grep csb `kpsewhich pdftex.map` | grep -v fcsb | grep -v TeXGyre | grep -v Roman
csb10 <csb10.pfb
csbx10 <csbx10.pfb
csbx12 <csbx12.pfb
csbx5 <csbx5.pfb
csbx6 <csbx6.pfb
csbx7 <csbx7.pfb
csbx8 <csbx8.pfb
csbx9 <csbx9.pfb
csbxsl10 <csbxsl10.pfb
csbxti10 <csbxti10.pfb

These fonts (and corresponding medium/regular weights)
are handled in LaTeX using  csfonts.sty .

The encoding seems to be a subset of  XL2. viz.

% @psencodingfile{
%   author = "Petr Olsak, Zdenek Wagner",
%   date = "19oct12",
%   filename = "xl2.enc",
%   license = "public domain",
%   email = "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>",
%   codetable = "ISO/ASCII",
%   docstring = "
% some of our (CSTUG- czech TeX Users Group) users want to support
% 8bit font coding such that:
% -- lower 7bit  is exactly OT1 (but with differences imposed
%   by DEK -- e.g. layout of cmr is different from cmtt)
% -- upper part is taken from ISO-Latin 2 (iso 8859-2),
%    but some of empty positions are filled with useful characters
%    usually available in type-1 font (permill sign etc.)
% "
% }


Changing your test as follows works fine, at least for some characters, in Plain TeX.

\pdfcompresslevel 0
\pdfobjcompresslevel 0
\nopagenumbers
\pdfgentounicode 1
\input glyphtounicode.tex
%\pdfglyphtounicode{ccaron}{010D}
\font\csb=csbx12
\csb
\char232 \char233 %\char234 %\char235 %
\char236 \char237 %\char238
\char239
\bye

č.ě.ď

(I hope 5 characters are showing for you here.
If not, my mail client could be at fault.)
Just extract them yourself from the PDF attached here.
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<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><div><div><div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Note that the characters &nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(18, 192, 14);" class="">\char234 \char235</span><span style="color: rgb(18, 192, 14);" class="">&nbsp; \char238 &nbsp;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><font color="#12c00e" class="">are not in the subset of XL2 characters&nbsp;</font><span style="color: rgb(18, 192, 14);" class="">supported</span><span style="color: rgb(18, 192, 14);" class="">&nbsp;</span><font color="#12c00e" class="">within the csr and csbx fonts.</font><span style="color: rgb(18, 192, 14);" class="">&nbsp;</span></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Ok, it is really not possible with pdftex. I looked into pdftex<br class="">source code and code for writing PK &amp; Type 3 fonts in PDFtex does<br class="">not use encoding vectors...<br class=""><br class="">Also code for loading mapfile cannot be used for PK fonts (checker<br class="">refuse it).<br class=""></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>There is no &nbsp;csr.enc &nbsp;in TeXLive, at least not from 2014 onwards.</div><div>So I cannot test this assertion unless you send a copy.</div><div>But do you really need this, given XL2 encoding?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Certainly one can attach a /ToUnicode map to the /Type3 font.</div><div>However there is something else missing in the way the /Font dictionary</div><div>is built in that case, which prevents Acrobat from using that CMap.</div><div>The lack of encoding vector and /CharSet may well be the problem,</div><div>or it may be some other piece of font metadata that is needed.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">I looked deeply how pdftex working with Type 3 and PK fonts and<br class="">created small patch which adds support for generating /ToUnicode<br class="">object (from \pdfglyphtounicode table) and which allows to load enc<br class="">file also PK fonts.<br class=""><br class="">Patch was created against pdftex in TeXLive 2012 (which is on my<br class="">system), but is really small and should be very easy to rewrite/apply<br class="">it on new versions.<br class=""><br class="">Patch pdftex-pkfonts-encfile-tounicode.patch is attached.<br class=""><br class="">Let me know what do you think about it and if it can be added to<br class="">pdftex project.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Ops, in patch from previous email is small problem with indexes and <br class="">notdef. Fixed in new attached pdftex-pkfonts-encfile-tounicode-v2.patch<br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks for going to this level of detail.</div><div>But is it really needed, when &nbsp;csfonts &nbsp;are available?</div><div>Besides, there is no point constructing the /ToUnicode CMAP automatically</div><div>if it’s not going to work properly anyway.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Surely new documents should use &nbsp;csfonts .</div><div><br class=""></div><div>But if there is an existing archive of documents that use older methods,</div><div>which may need faithful production into the future, then you have my&nbsp;</div><div>support for adding improvements to the way Type-3 fonts are handled.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Pali Rohár<br class=""><a href="mailto:[email protected]" class="">[email protected]</a><br class=""><span id="cid:FFA0EBE2-4823-4BFF-A1C5-D6F69089C661">&lt;pdftex-pkfonts-encfile-tounicode-v2.patch&gt;</span></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span>Ross</div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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