Hi On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Eli Marmor wrote:
> I wrote: > > > I still need ideas/help from anybody who can help, about the new > > problem with the PFA fonts; After all, these fonts have been worked for > > years and served many Linux (and UNIX) users and applications, and it > > will be too bad that after so many years they will not work anomore and > > the users will have to use only bitmapped PCF fonts. > > > > Even if you are not expert in this issue, you can help: > > > > Download the fonts from ftp://elmar.co.il/pub/H.fonts.tar.Z, install > > them, and(using "xfd -fn") check if you get only the basic ASCII chars > > (without the Hebrew) when you display the font. Then, send the results > > to me, detailing what is your environment exactly (distro, version, X > > version, locale, etc.). > > Thanks to Yedidyah Bar-David, I had the exact details where the problem > happens and where not, and examples of working fonts. > > I downloaded the fonts, and compared attribute-by-attribute, till I > found the cause: > > It seems that sometime between the old distros of Linux with their old > versions of XF86, the Type1 encoding changed. Instead of agrave, > aacute, acircumflex, etc., the names of the 8bit characters became > cryptic (afii57664, etc.). After putting these cryptic names, > everything worked great (but stoppedto work under other platforms and > fonts editors and tools...). > > I don't have any clue what standard these names are based on; It is not > supported by other UNIXes, by font editors (such as Fontographer), or > by conversion tools. Those are standard names by Adobe. I can't give you an exact pointer, but I believe that you wil find that in the Type1 specs somewhere on Adobe's site. > > This is not the first case that "somebody" doesn't love the standard > encoding; I already experienced a case where the "Encoding" attribute > of Type1 had to be changed to "StandardEncoding"; But it's the first > time that I have to define a new table, of 255 names, dozens ofthem > non-standard. > > I'm afraid that I'll have to supply a special set of fonts, dedicated > for Linux, because after this change, the fonts will not work with > other UNIXes. > > Does anybody have any idea why XF86 moved to a non-standard encoding?! I believe that this *is* the current standard (maybe those names simplify the interpeters?). -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
