Re: Improvements to Postscript backend (patches included)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

David Feuer schreef:
> On 3/31/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > According to the Postscript reference, selectfont can be used with CID
> > > resources as well as regular fonts.  Unfortunately, I can't make the
> > > utf-8 regression test work either with or without my changes, so I
> > > can't be sure I got this right.
> > unfortunately, Ghostscript disagrees. It throws a /typecheck error from
> > --glyphshow-- , if you load the font as a regular font.
>
> Yech.  I suspect this is a bug in Ghostscript, though I could be
> reading the PostScript reference wrong.  Could you take a look at
> section 5.11.3 (CIDFont Dictionaries), the entry for selectfont in the
> operator index (page 656, or PDF page 670), and the entry for
> glyphshow (page 602, PDF page 616)?

I suspect you may know more about postscript than me, your guess is as 
good as mine; If you think it is bug, can you file a bug with 
ghostscript development?

I can send you a file with an embedded CFF CID font.