Any support for Adobe Type 1 Font Format?

yob / pdf-reader

The PDF::Reader library implements a PDF parser conforming as much as possible to the PDF specification from Adobe.

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Open utensil opened 11 years ago

utensil commented 11 years ago

When I run the example extract_fonts.rb for a pdf generated by pdfTeX, it complains:

unsupported font type Type1

I googled for Type1, it seems to be Adobe Type 1 Font Format( http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/T1_SPEC.PDF ), a PostScript-like font format.

I wonder if there is any plan about supporting it?

yob commented 11 years ago

i'll happily accept a patch that adds support for type1 fonts to extract_fonts.rb, but I personally don't have time to add support in the short term.

utensil commented 11 years ago

I had tried to export it and convert it to ttf according to the spec with partial success but:

adobe font type 1 is not a format directly supported by html5 web fonts, nor can it easily be converted to ttf by tools AFAIK, thus exporting the stream would be useless in my case
i partially parsed type 1 file, but it seems to be not quite helpful for me to present math symbols in the font file

i will keep working on it to see if anything eventually become useful.