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by Thanh Han The 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

FYI: there is a large collection of various pdf's http://www.stillhq.com/pdfdb/faq.html which can be useful for testing tools that do something with pdf. I use it for testing pdf inclusion in pdftex; perhaps luatex developers might find it useful too. Thanh

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[pdftex-Patches][2067] Debug copyFont in pdftoepdf.cc
by pdftex-patches＠sarovar.org 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Patches item #2067, was opened at 2008-07-11 14:34 Status: Open Priority: 3 Submitted By: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: Debug copyFont in pdftoepdf.cc Resolution: None Group: v1.50.0 Category: PDF inclusion Initial Comment: The if statement in copyFont is hard to trace; this patch makes that easier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=2067&group_id=106

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Re: [NTG-pdftex] pdftex-1.40.8
by Thanh Han The 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

I forgot something so I re-made the release. Sorry for any inconvenience. The new URL is: http://sarovar.org/frs/download.php/1239/pdftex-1.40.8.tar.bz2 Thanh On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 09:49:33PM +0200, The Thanh Han wrote: > Hi, > > a new stable release is available at > http://sarovar.org/frs/download.php/1238/pdftex-1.40.8.tar.bz2 > > -------------------------------------------------- > pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.8 was released on 2008-07-10 > -------------------------------------------------- > - Incorporated synctex > - Incorporated the new version of TeX: 3.1415926 > - The pool file is now compiled in > - Bugfix: > - some large TrueType fonts caused pdftex to segfault (1866) > - fix for copying contents streams of included pdf (1751) > - Fonts from included PDFs for which maplines existed missed their /StemV > values > - \pdflastximagepages was broken for JBIG2 images > - included PDFs with a negative lly in the MediaBox with a depth != 0 with > \pdfximage were wrongly vertically diplaces (936) > - PDF inclusion was broken on ppc-darwin (941) > - pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.29 > > > Thanh

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pdftex-1.40.8
by Thanh Han The 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

Hi, a new stable release is available at http://sarovar.org/frs/download.php/1238/pdftex-1.40.8.tar.bz2 -------------------------------------------------- pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.8 was released on 2008-07-10 -------------------------------------------------- - Incorporated synctex - Incorporated the new version of TeX: 3.1415926 - The pool file is now compiled in - Bugfix: - some large TrueType fonts caused pdftex to segfault (1866) - fix for copying contents streams of included pdf (1751) - Fonts from included PDFs for which maplines existed missed their /StemV values - \pdflastximagepages was broken for JBIG2 images - included PDFs with a negative lly in the MediaBox with a depth != 0 with \pdfximage were wrongly vertically diplaces (936) - PDF inclusion was broken on ppc-darwin (941) - pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.29 Thanh

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CID Type 0C :-(
by Martin Schröder 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi, a customer has a large number of documents (mostly from InDesign) with embedded CID Type 0C and CID TrueType fonts which get included by pdfTeX. Since pdfTeX doesn't do subsestting of these type of fonts, the number of fonts in the resulting PDF becomes quite large; too large for the tools of the printing house. My understanding is that this wouldn't happen if the included PDFs would instead use Type 1(C) fonts. Short of recreating/manipluating all those documents in InDesign to exchange the fonts (if possible at all), are there other options? Are there tools (e.g. PitStop) that can reliably exchange the fonts? And last but not least: How hard would it be to enhance pdfTeX to also subset CID Type 0C or CID TrueType fonts? Best Martin

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