August 2017 - ntg-pdftex

Incomplete CharSet causes failure with PDF/A validation
by Ross Moore 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

Hi all. I believe there is a problem with the way pdfTeX constructs the CharSet for a subsetted font. Not all fonts are affected, and it only shows up when attempting to validate for PDF/A. I’ve mentioned the problem to Thanh and others, but as there’s been nothing done, I’ll bring it up here, with an example that cannot be worked-around. Attached are two PDF/A documents, using Hebrew text. The main font is the “David” style font from the culmus package: DavidCLM-Medium hebart-david.pdf — … [View More]

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[PATCH v4] Allow .enc files for bitmap PK fonts
by Pali Rohár 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Hi! I'm sending new series of patches for PK fonts which are reworked on top of current texlive trunk svn repository. I split changes into more patch files and updated also documentation with test. Karl, can you look at them? -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar(a)gmail.com

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Minor patch to pdftex.web to make it weave-able
by Shreevatsa R 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

Hi pdftex developers, Please consider the attached patch file for pdftex.web, which should not have any functional change. I know that pdftex.web is mainly compiled through web2c these days. So although written as an extension of tex.web it is not "really" intended as being in the WEB language, as tex.web once was. So one cannot expect the WEB tools to work on it. Still, it would be nice to run weave on it, especially since the changes needed are so minor (attached) and don't affect the web2c … [View More]

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