Re: [Devel] [slightly-OT] Non-integer bbox for T1 font?

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 2:56 PM -0500 3/5/01, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> Does the customer's font file(s) (PFM + PFB, or suitcase + outline font) work
> with ATM?

        I don't have the original font file, just the PDF.


>  Or is the Type 1 font in question autogenerated?

	I don't know for certain, but from looking at the PDF it 
appears that it may well be generated by the PDF producer in question.


> For instance, on a
> PC platform, the print drivers could be making (depending on how the driver is
> configured) a Type 1 font out of a TT font (resulting in non-integer bboxes),
> and these non-int bboxes are getting passed through to the PDF file 
> when the PS file is distilled.

	No distillation here, direct PDF generation - HOWEVER it 
appears that a MultiMaster font was involved (/BaseFont is 
/MezzMM-OV-WIMOOB).


> If the font is autogenerated, we have no way of really testing it with ATM, so
> I am guessing in this case that Acrobat Reader (which uses CoolType, right?)

	All Adobe products use CoolType to render text.  That's the 
Adobe Text/Type engine.


> I guess I need to see the PS file (was this made with one
> of Digital Applications products?) and the original PDF file.
	You want it you got it.   I'll send it via separate mail to 
avoid sending to list.


LDR
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