[cairo] [PATCH] Use Type2 CID fonts instead of Type42 fonts in
PDF backend
Behdad Esfahbod
behdad at behdad.org
Sun Jan 21 13:32:47 PST 2007
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 11:32 -0500, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote:
>
> With attached patch cairo PDF backend outputs Type2 CID fonts for
> truetype, instead of Type42 fonts. This has advantage that most of
> truetype fonts will not be fragmented. This can make some documents
> significantly more compact: all structures that were dublicated in
> multiple Type42 fonts (cvt, fpgm, prep, some glyphs referenced from
> other glyphs, maybe other tables) will now be included only once.
Nice work. Thanks. How well is this supported in various PDF
renderers?
Adrian, would you review the patch (and commit if you like it) please?
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