Hi, Wolfgang

On Dec 11, 2007 12:05 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
2007/12/10, Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen@gmail.com>:
> Hi,

Hi Chen,

can't you ue XeTeX or LuaTeX for your document instead of pdfTeX,
it will be easier for you because you don't need tfm and map files
and you need only the typescripts.
I don't know, but in this case, I don't want to embed fonts, I don't know how LuaTeX can do that but it runs really slow on my ancient PC, especially on the first time when it's generating font cache.


> I searched the mail list for a while and I got that if I didn't specify the
> font file, it will not be embeded and Acrobat Reader will just use its own
> fonts to show the characters.
>
> I want to make some Chinese documents and I think if I don't embed any
> fonts, it will be much smaller than it used to be. And there is a cool font
> AdobeMingStd-Light.otf coming along with Acrobat Reader so I wish I can use
> it. I converted it to ttf and then tfm files (I don't know whether it is
> legal) and write the map file like:

pdfTeX can use OpenType fonts and you don't have to convert them
into TrueType format.
I convert it to ttf only because I want the tfm files, I can't find there's a tool that can to otf2tfm. And then I deleted the ttf and the otf fonts because I don't want to embed them so I don't need them any more.


> ================================
> uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-00 "Adobe Ming Std" " Unicode00Encoding ReEncodeFont
> " <uni-00.enc
> ================================
> I think the first column is for the tfm files, and I do get the
> uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-00.tfm to uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-ff.tfm files. And
> the second column is for the PS name of the font. I really don't know how to
> write it because it has spaces in it, and when I replaced it with another PS
> name that has no spaces or other special characters in it, say SimSun as a
> common Simplified Chinese font in Windows, it worked fine.
>
> So, any suggestions?

XeTeX or LuaTeX.

> Best Regards
> Chen

Wolfgang
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Anyway, thank you for paying attention to my stupid and almost useless topic.


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