[poppler] TrueType "post" table format 2.8?

[mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:15:21 +0100
Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>A Dijous, 12 d'agost de 2010, mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp va escriure:
>> This code looks like as if designed to support "post"
>> table format version 1.0, 2.0 and 2.8. The version 2.8
>> is unknown for me. According to latest OpenType spec:
>> 
>>   http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/post.htm
>> 
>> There are 1.0, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0, there's no 2.8.

>> If anybody has an example of TrueType font including
>> post table with version 0x00028000, please let me know
>> about its detail.
>
>Yeah, that code chunk has been there "forever" so really no idea.
>
>About the post table with version 0x00028000 is there anything i can grep over 
>the pdf files i have here so that if i get a match it means i have that 
>version?

Yes, if you have any PDFs including the version 0x00028000,
it means the exist of such TrueType!

But, according Adobe Type42 spec, post table is not required
in Type42/Type11 embedding, I guess smart PDF generators strip
the table when it embeddes TrueType. At the same time, if it
exists and an implementation of PDF renderer does not support
it, the rendering result should have no problem.

Maybe the support of post table in FoFi library would be
meaningful when a PDF is processed with external font resource.

Regards,
mpsuzuki