[poppler] Bug 69485

[Alex Korobkin]

2014/1/8 James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com>

> >>>>> "AK" == Alex Korobkin <korobkin+pp at gmail.com> writes:
>
> AK> I'm curious what does poppler pdftops do with fonts that makes such a
> AK> noticeable difference in the resulting file? Could anything be done to
> AK> make the resulting PostScript be more compatible with Adobe products?
>
> It looks like pdftops creates font instances as it finds them in the pdf,
> skipping only exact duplicates.
>
> This pdf uses a number of non-embedded fonts, including AdobeSongStd-Light,
> KozMinPr6N-Regular, MicrosoftYaHei, MicrosoftYaHei Bold, NSimSun, SimHei,
> SimSun and some of the base14 fonts


Thanks for confirming it, James.
I have a bug about it, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65306 ,
hopefully poppler team gets to it at some point.


> .  (Interestingly, it uses each of
> Times-Roman, TimesNewRoman and TimesNewRomanPSMT; it seems the pdf has
> a long and interesting edit history.)
>

So true. The file was made by Chinese government agency. :)


> Cairo, OTOH, only embeds the fonts it actually uses.
>
> -JimC
> --
> James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
>

-Alex
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