On Tuesday 28 March 2017 11:27:03 Hans Hagen wrote:
On 3/27/2017 11:53 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
On 2017-03-27 at 09:59:34 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
Anyway, is there some script or program which can generate any PGC files? Quick look at google does not find anything, even not any specification for that file. I could probably decode it from pdftex source code...
AFAIK the "PDF Font Containers" are not officially maintained. They were introduced in order to support development of pdfTeX itself but never supposed to be used by mortal users.
We added that as an experiment as part of Thanh's thesis work. It permitted injection of shapes generated by metapost.
Are there any PGC font files? Or are there any scripts which can generate them (e.g. from metapost output)? I was not able to find any information about PGC, just that what is in pdftex documentation.
But nowadays I don't see any reason to care about Type3 fonts or "PDF Glyph Containers" at all. The best solution is to create Type1 fonts from Metafont sources.
it's still interesting to be able to inject arbitrary shapes (with a bit of packaging in actualtext one can even get cut/paste right)
Am I right that simple PDF picture could be stored in PGC container and then used as one font glyph from pdfTeX? -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com