Bug#178717: tetex-bin: pdftex/pdflatex fails to subset embedded CJK TrueType font
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> What is the most clear difference between subsetted and
> not subsetted fonts? I know a difference between embedded
> and not embedded but, to tell the truth, I didn't know
> the notion of subsetted.
Subsetting means that only the glyphs that are used in a document are
really embedded. That is, if you set a document with 10 pages in FontA,
and use FontB only for the the word "Proposal" on the title page,
then only the letters P, a, l, o, p, r, s from FontB will be embedded
in the PDF file, if subsetting is used. Otherwise the whole font, with
all included diacritics and strange glyphs is embedded. However, I
learned this for Type1 fonts. I do not know anything about TrueTypeFonts
in pdfLaTeX - especially not whether they can be subsetted at all. Ah,
just found out, the pdftex manual claims they can.
>> I tried to reproduce it again; the results with the beta packages are in
>> my previous mail, but on my woody box with unstable's tetex packages I
>> simply get
>
> It is necessary to install cjk-latex (perhaps you did already)
> and tfm-arphic-bsmi00lp (did you?), but with these only it might
> be used PK fonts so you need to creat /etc/texmf/updmap.d/20mymap.cfg
> with a content "Map arphic.map", run
> update-updmap ; updmap --outputdir /etc/texmf/dvips
Ah, found an other bug in my tetex-beta packages (there was no link from
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/maps/dvips/somename to /etc/texmf/dvips, also
updmap would write its output somewhere it wasn't used).
At least now I can reproduce the original behavior, and it also occurs
with tetex-beta (which is _not_ the current beta, because this week
there was a new one with new pdftex.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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