Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing"
having looked at one of those .t1 files now, i see that it is indeed a
new file format.
the plrm notes that eexec can handle either hex or binary data
transparently, and that is the only difference from traditional
pfa i can see.
so they saved some disk size and some memory pressure compared to pfa.
it should be possible these days to embed those files as is into a
postscript file, given that transmission is likely to be over ip or usb.
(unlike, say, rs232 with xon/xoff.)
software which expects pfa or pfb should learn to hadle these, too.
freetype has no problem with them.
-JimC
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