[NTG-pdftex] [ pdftex-Bugs-809 ] Incorrect FontFlags for Symbol font (34 instead of 4)

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Bugs item #809, was opened at 2007-06-20 09:51
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Till Tantau (tantau)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Incorrect FontFlags for Symbol font (34 instead of 4)

Initial Comment:
Hi!

with version 1.40.3 of pdftex I have the following problem: When the 
standard PDF-Font "Symbol" is used in the pdf-file, then the /Flags 
entry of the FontDescriptor is set to 34 rather than to 4.

This is incorrect and causes the resulting files to be displayed 
incorrectly by the Acrobat Reader.

To reproduce the problem, I use the following LaTeX-code:


\documentclass{article}

\pdfcompresslevel0
\font\myfont=psyr\relax

\begin{document}

\pagestyle{empty}
\myfont SG

\end{document}


My pdftex.map is standard and contains the following line:

psyr Symbol


According to the pdftex manual, this should cause the /Flags entry of 
the font in the PDF-file to be set to 4 (which would be correct and 
which would be the Flags value of a Symbol font). However, on my 
system the resulting pdf file (which I attach) contains a /Flags entry of 
34 (which is incorrect here and which is the Flags value of a serif 
standard font).


I hope this report is reasonably clear...


Any help on this would be greatly appreciated,
Till Tantau


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>Comment By: Till Tantau (tantau)
Date: 2007-06-20 10:00

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Hello again,

I toyed around with this some more. It turns out that if I change the line in 
the pdftex.map file to

psyr Symbol 6

then the /Flags field in the resulting .pdf file is set to 6 (which is "not quite 
correct", but then the text is rendered correctly, at least).

Now, trying other values than 6, it seems that pdftex specifically replaces 
exactly the number 4 by 34, all other values are left as they are. I presume 
this was done at some time for some other font that is not a symbol font and 
whose font flags were missing/incorrect. However, this behaviour is a bit 
problematic for the Symbol font.

Best regards,
Till

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