Re: [Devel] PDF Font embedding

[Werner LEMBERG]

> >"I wrote for my former employer the code for using FreeType to get
> >the information necessary to embed fonts in PDF files.  I've been
> >meaning to rewrite it and add it to the FreeType distro"
> >
> >I was wondering if this work is available as this is precisely what
> >I would like to do.
>
>          I am aware of at least two existing open source projects
> that use FT as part of the PDF generation code, as well as many
> other commercial solutions.  However, in both cases, they only
> perform full embedding of the fonts and not subsetting.

I strongly suggest to look at the development of dvipdfmx which
doesn't use FreeType but which provides excellent PDF font embedding.

  cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/home/cvsroot login
  cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/home/cvsroot co dvipdfmx


     Werner