Bryant Eastham wrote:
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Apologies if the question should go to another list - let me know if so.
The pdftex list would have been better, but I think I can answer anyway.
I am using texexec with MSPMincho on a Japanese utf-8 document. I followed the instructions and it appears to work well.
Texexec runs several passes, and on each pass spends a *long* time integrating each font "page". I get many lines saying:
{<path to enc>/MSPMinchoXX.enc}<<path to tt>/MSPMincho.ttf>
The time taken in this process is many times that of the rest of the conversion. The resulting PDF font properties lists "MS-PMincho (Embedded Subset), Type: TrueType, Encoding: Built-in" 75 times. I imagine that I am glad that the whole font is not included (for file size). However, during development it is painful to wait.
Large font support in pdftex is suboptimal: for each encoding block of 256 characters, it has to reload and re-subset the complete ttf font. It is unlikely this situation will ever improve, and the best option is to switch to using one of the two new engines: xetex or luatex. This will need different font commands from the ones you used for pdftex, though. Best wishes, Taco