Re: pdfmark and fonts

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 17:06:45 +0100, Tristan Williams wrote:

> I wanted the current font to pass to the pdfmark code that I have put
> in the left argument to the @Graphic which I then put inside a Lout
> function. If I leave out the /DA line from the pdfmark code (below)
> the default (Postscript?) font used does not seem to be the same one
> as the current font in Lout. So far, I have not been able to pass
> successfully any element of Postscript's currentfont to/through the
> pdfmark. I just don't know enough to do it yet!
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> def @edit
> left  varname                 # pdf form variable name
> named @font     {@CurrFamily} # current Lout font family. To work this must = Postscript font name

You can use 

  named @font { @FontDef&&{@CurrFamily-@CurrFace} @Open { @Name } } 

to refer to PostScript font name of the current font.  There's an
interesting potential issue with font recoding, though.  The problem
is that /DA doesn't use graphic context of the surrounding text, so
any postscript setup lout does (and distiller picks up and reflects in
the PDF) doesn't affect /DA.


>     "/"DA ("/"@font @fontsize Tf @fgcolour rg)

Picking up font size automatically is tricky.  The value of /DA is a
string, so you cannot easily use the usual trick of computing correct
value with postscript code ("12 pt").  And anyway, since /DA has its
own context, lout default coordinate transformations (that include
scaling) don't apply (note that you use just plain "12", using default
scale).  So you'd need something like a sprintf(3), so to say, to
create the string for /DA using postscript code.

You may probably play /_objdef games to help some of this, I haven't
really thought about it in details.

-uwe