[gs-devel] ArabicTransparent and ArabicTransparent-Bold Fonts

Ken Sharp ken.sharp at artifex.com
Thu Oct 15 06:19:49 PDT 2009


At 09:15 15/10/2009 -0400, Levi wrote:

>Thanks again, Ken.  I will look into the cidfmap again to see if I can
>get the right ordering and supplement.  Is there a way to figure it
>out from the TTF?

Not really, because it depends on the Ordering in the PDF file :-) The PDF 
you sent has (IIRC) Adobe/Identity.


>  I attempted to load the font with fontforge, but
>wasn't sure where to locate that information or even if it was in it.

Its the CMAP table, of which there might be many sub tables. Best would be 
the presence of a 3,1 CMAP subtable, which is Windows,Unicode.


>I'm attaching the two fonts that enable me to see the PDFs in Adobe
>Reader as well as Foxit Reader.  Note that they are copyrighted so
>they're not embeddable.

I'll have a play and see if I can make this work, it might be a short while 
as I'm busy with another issue right now.


                     Ken


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