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Michael Unger wrote:

> On 2013-03-20 21:28, "luser- -droog" wrote:
> 
>> Which font fails? It might be that Acrobat can only do this with PS
>> fonts, not TrueType.
> 
> Just with respect to my experiments -- the original fonts are TrueType
> fonts. I've created MS Word documents containing the relevant glyphs
> A...Z, a...z, 0...9 (and a few others) and created a PDF document from
> that using Acrobat 6 Standard (rather old admittedly). Finally I've used
> Acrobat with "save as EPS" and "[x] convert TrueType fonts to PostScript
> fonts" (or similar, I don't remember the exact phrasing) and extracted
> the font information from that.
> 
> The result is then embedded as a PostScript level 3 font dictionary into
> my programs, for example (showing just the "period" glyph):
> 
> | /ABCDEF+OptimaLT
> | << /FontType 1
> |    /FontMatrix [0.001 0 0 0.001 0 0]
> |    /Encoding ISOLatin1Encoding
> |    /FontBBox [0 0 0 0]
> |    /PaintType 0
> |    /Private
> |    << /|- {def}
> |       /| {put}
> |       /BlueValues [0 0]
> |       /Password 5839
> |       /MinFeature {16 16}
> |       /Subrs
> |          [<1C60D8A8CC31FE2BF6E07AA3E541E2> <1C60D8A8C9C3D06D9E>
> |           <1C60D8A8C9C202D79A> <1C60D8A849>
> |           <1C60D8A8CC3674F41144B13B77>]
> |       /OtherSubrs
> |          [{} {} {} {systemdict /internaldict known not {pop 3}
> |           {1183615869 systemdict /internaldict get exec dup
> |           /startlock known {/startlock get exec} {dup
> |           /strtlck known {/strtlck get exec} {pop 3} ifelse} ifelse}
> |           ifelse} executeonly]
> |    >>
> |    /CharStrings
> |    << /.notdef
> |          <1C60D8A8C9B854D00D>
> |       /space
> |          <1C60D8A8C9B854D00D>
> |       /period
> |          <1C60D8A8C9B854D0ED1EFCAE87DC2FD148747CF8209152983DF13290A098
> |          1A95FE8A38221E1CA30B7BCA347D12229301D0EAAEBE7CFF9A6A629E95F74
> |          357C9866243F6F3C4>
> |    >>
> | >> definefont
> 
> Michael
> 

I don't think it is a font type issue:
I noted earlier that the Mac OS X Preview application exhibits the same 
error, and I just repeated the test with a Type1 font included in the PS 
file, and the issue result is as bogus as before.

Helge

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'eofill'ing areas Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2013-03-10 18:46 +0100
  Re: 'eofill'ing areas Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2013-03-10 22:22 +0100
    Re: 'eofill'ing areas Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2013-03-11 17:31 +0100
      Re: 'eofill'ing areas Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2013-03-11 18:02 +0100
        Re: 'eofill'ing areas Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2013-03-12 18:45 +0100
          Re: 'eofill'ing areas Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2013-03-13 11:59 +0100
            Re: 'eofill'ing areas Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2013-03-13 18:00 +0100
              Re: 'eofill'ing areas Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2013-03-13 18:20 +0100
                Re: 'eofill'ing areas Olle <olavi.sakari@gmail.com> - 2013-03-19 00:25 -0700
                Re: 'eofill'ing areas Olle <olavi.sakari@gmail.com> - 2013-03-19 00:31 -0700
                Re: 'eofill'ing areas luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-20 13:28 -0700
                Re: 'eofill'ing areas Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2013-03-21 17:30 +0100
                Re: 'eofill'ing areas Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2013-03-21 17:52 +0100
  Re: 'eofill'ing areas luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-10 18:48 -0700

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