I think you want to include the original font data. When you parse the font in
Go it only needs the hints/fidelity for the Go renderer. When you create the
pdf you want to have the full font for optimum rendering.
> On Feb 4, 2021, at 2:00 PM, Sebastien Binet <s...@sbinet.org> wrote:
>
> yes.
> but as I wrote in the OP, it's not completely satisfying.
> one needs to keep track of the association font.Face/[]byte.
> so that's either double the memory (give or take), or a filename/io.Reader
> handle to keep around.
>
> -s
>
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>
>> On Thursday, February 4th, 2021 at 8:28 PM, Robert Engels
>> <reng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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 LaTeX1.
>>>
>>> Great. (and many thanks, by the way.)
>>>
>>> We migrated gonum/plot2 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?
>>>
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