Re: [Devel] Two apple oddities.

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

>>>>> "George" == George Williams <address@hidden> writes:

George>     I was looking at the obliqued helvetica on my macintoy,
George> and I discovered that it is a few lines of oblique wrapper
George> around an unskewed helvetica.

I've seen this in actual ps code, but I don't recall seeing it in a
pfb (or tha mac style thereof).  OTOH, obliquing a font by copying the
code for the upright version, changing the FontMatrix and renaming it
is common.  Eg, in Lucida Typewriter there are:

/FullName (Lucida Typewriter) readonly def
/FamilyName (LucidaTypewriter) readonly def
/Weight (Medium) readonly def
/ItalicAngle 0 def
/FontName /LucidaTypewriter def
/FontMatrix [0.001 0 0 0.001 0 0] readonly def
/FontBBox{0 -211 743 940}readonly def
/UniqueID 5054489 def

vs:

/FullName (Lucida Typewriter Oblique) readonly def
/FamilyName (LucidaTypewriter) readonly def
/Weight (Medium) readonly def
/ItalicAngle -11.3 def
/FontName /LucidaTypewriterOblique def
/PaintType 0 def
/FontType 1 def
/FontMatrix [0.001 0 0.0002 0.001 0 0] readonly def
/FontBBox{0 -211 743 940}readonly def
/UniqueID 5054491 def

with identical Private dicts.  The bold, sans and sans bold variants
all do the same thing.

Certain version of helvetica narrow did this to effect the compression.

George> ftview (2.1.2) doesn't accept it. If anyone is
George> interested in looking at it, I can pass on a copy.

Does ATM?  It would be interesting to un-mac it and try it in the
/usr/X11/lib/Acrobat5/Resource/Font directory of acroread 5 to see
whether cooltype can deal with it....

-JimC