On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Karl Berry wrote:
At this time he was thinking about changing /FontName in the free URW fonts on CTAN
I sincerely hope Walter does not do that. Seems like it would have major backward-compatibility implications.
e. g. there would be problems with pdftex: while trying to replace fonts coming with PDF files to be embedded, pdftex would not match the traditional fontnames any more and would fail replacing fonts (like /Times-Roman), then the whole font replacement business would be practically broken, resulting in larger filesize in these cases. Same if one would also check for matching UniqueId field. So maybe it's better that it remains fuzzy as is (with a few sideeffects). Or maybe invent a font name alias mechanism as Fontmap from gs. Regards, Hartmut