Are these fonts TrueType-flavored OpenType (.ttf), CFF-flavored OpenType (.otf), or some other format?
Sent from my mobile phone. > On 01.11.2015, at 20:41, Hugo Roy <hugo+...@ampoliros.net> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I have been modifying an old font from the 1990s in order to be able > to use it with my setup, using XeTeX. > > Everything worked fine and I could produced PDFs, until I saw how they > were displayed by Mac OS’ Preview.app (see attachments for comparison). > > The issue is that the fonts are in a 2048 em-wide PostScript size > instead of 1000 (I sometimes get a warning from FontForge that the > width should be 1000). > > However, this does not seem to cause any problem for most PDF viewers > except Mac OS’ Preview.app and I am also able to get around the > problem with Preview.app by translating the PDF (1.5) to PostScript > and then back to PDF (1.4) again using ghostscript's ps2pdf. > > So I guess there must be a solution to use the fonts and produce PDF > that will work fine everywhere. > > > I have tried to convert the font from 2048 to 1000 automatically with > Fontforge, but the results aren't satisfactory (especially, the > BoldItalic font was too much messed up on the x-height of the glyphs > compared to the rest of the fonts in the family). > > At this point, I am not sure where to fix the problem, so I welcome > any expert opinion. If you think there are better places to ask for > opinions on this, I'm all ears. > > Please contact me directly if you want to test yourself with the > fonts, I can't share these fonts publicly. > > Thank you for your help, > > -- > Hugo Roy > ✆ +33608741341 > > Please use cryptography for email: see https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ > Merci d’utiliser la cryptographie pour l’email : voir > https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/fr/ > <Capture d'écran de 2015-11-01 20-31-46.png> > <Capture d'écran de 2015-11-01 20-32-15.png> > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
