If you have the data to pass to Parse then you have the data to embed the font
in the pdf.
> On Feb 4, 2021, at 12:02 PM, Sebastien Binet <s...@sbinet.org> wrote:
>
> hi there,
>
> Right now, I am pretty happy with the state of the
> x/image/font{,/sfnt,/opentype}} packages. I can load TTF/OTF files, draw
> some glyphs in a way that (almost) resembles LaTeX[1].
>
> Great. (and many thanks, by the way.)
>
> We migrated gonum/plot[2] from freetype to x/image/font recently and all
> our use cases worked well (as far as I know.)
>
> Well, all, save for one: being able to embed fonts into PDFs.
>
> To some extent, embedding fonts into PDF files needs to re-serialize
> sfnt.Font back into a []byte following the OTF format.
>
> Unless I am mistaken, x/image/font doesn't seem to provide the reverse
> function of sfnt.Parse.
> (This is a bit annoying because one needs to provide a way to associate
> a given font.Face or sfnt.Font with its original []byte raw data.)
>
> Is it something that x/image/font should or would provide?
>
> [1]: https://github.com/go-latex/latex/tree/main/cmd/mtex-render
> [2]: https://gonum.org/v1/plot
>
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