Hi everyone,
I've created my own RISC OS outline font using FontFiend, that is used
in an OvationPro document and printed to PostScript using Mr Tytgat &
Mr Wuerthner's PS3 driver. The document is subsequently distilled into
a PDF using Adobe Distiller 8.
Other fonts in the document are EFF fonts that also contain Type1, AFM
and Encoding files.
I'm trying to get an understanding of the way the PS3 driver includes
the fonts in the PostScript output file. On the older (Acorn) PS2
driver, if any fonts contain a Type1 file (it is my understanding)
that this Type1 data is used in the PS output file. Is this still the
case for the PS3 driver?
Getting to the point of why I'm aksing:
I notice that text in the PDF that uses the EFF fonts can be copied
and pasted into a text editor and the text is correct. In other words,
the characters are correct. Where as, with my font (or indeed any
other standard RISC OS outline font that only has Outlines and
IntMetrics files) the characters are not correct when copied and
pasted - they seem to be odd control codes. Although, they 'look'
correct in the PDF in as much as the shapes displayed in the PDF
document have the right matching shapes as the font, when examining
the containing text object data in Acobat's page content tree all the
non EFF font text is just represented as dots.
What causes the difference between the fonts and how can I ensure that
my font retains the correct characters embeded in the PDF.
I realise that my PDF document 'looks' fine but it is totally messed
up with regards to the ability to extract text, edit text or use
screen readers to speak the text aloud.
Hoping someone may shed some light onto this matter.
Thanks,
Gavin.
[Apologies if this annoys anyone, but I've cross posted this in both
the riscos-ps mailing list and Davis Pilling's softwarelist as the
subject seems to have a relation to both lists, and the very
knowledgeable folk that read them]
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