2 Feb
2005
2 Feb
'05
10:03 a.m.
Hi, I spent a few hours playing with type3 fonts, but was not able to create a type3 font that uses another font (type1). It seems that the text operators somehow doesn't work inside the CharProc stream for type3 fonts. I was experimenting with it because I wonder whether it makes sense to have mechanism to create user-defined fonts. The answer seems to be no. But anyway, if someone is interested in this issue, please have a look into the pdf I created, maybe I did something wrong. As the files are small so I attached it here, hopefully it doesn't cause any inconvenience. I tried with xpdf, gv and acrobat reader (on linux), and got dots or blank glyph only. In short, it seems that type3 font is not the way to go. Thanh