[Gs-devel] RE: about OCF features

[mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp]

Dear Mr. Igor,

Thanks for your detailed comment on our patch. I will refine it.

>I have PDF Reference Manual v1.3, Second Edition. In p.220 - 221
>it explains shadings. I found your example in the page 344.

Quite sorry. I was refering PDF reference downloaded from Adobe,
stamped Mar 11 1999, possibly it's outdated.

>I believe that "OCF compatibility" is a *feature* of CSL.
>I can't remember about 2015. Mainly I worked with 3010.
>In 3015 this feature persists.

I've ever found CSL files in recent PS priner's resource
(I'm sure on 2015 - supporting CID natively, and possibly
on 30xx), but I couldn't check whether it's used /or not.

I suppose, the printers/CPSI compatible with PS Level 3
ought to support both of OCF & CID/CMap natively, so CSL
files are not used.

>The most important thing is whether a modern (1-3 years old ?)
>software generates documents, which require OCF font format.

Possibly, most modern softwares are independent on the font
format, and not designed to use OCF.

But, I think the support for OCF is expected (in this point,
my attitude is a bit conservative than Mr. Hideyuki).
There are existing OCF fonts, documents using OCF,
and it's not easy to rewrite them for CMap/CID fonts.

Please let me ask - will GS stop the support of OCF?

Best Wishes,
mpsuzuki