Re: pdftex - Support for Type3 fonts

On Thursday 04 August 2016 01:25:47 Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 2016-08-04 at 00:14:51 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> 
>  > On Thursday 04 August 2016 00:07:52 Karl Berry wrote:
>  > >     Is there any way to download external Type3 font into output
>  > >     PDF
>  > > 
>  > > I'm afraid I have nothing to offer here, and it's nothing I'm
>  > > likely to implement in the foreseeable future.  Sorry.  Maybe you
>  > > could develop a patch?  -k
>  > 
>  > Ok thank you for answer. As I understand you Type3 fonts are not
>  > supported by pdftex.
> 
> The problem is that Type 3 fonts can contain arbitrary PostScript code
> and thus require a full-fledged PostScript interpreter.

But is not Type 3 font support required by PDF standards? I thought yes.

> Can't you convert the fonts to Type 1 somehow in advance?

I'm just asking if such thing is supported by pdftex... If not scratch
that, not a fatal problem for me.

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Pali Rohár
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