Bug#742767: TeX Gyre OpenType and wrongly(?) named glyphs
On 7/2/2014 4:32 PM, Boguslaw Jackowski wrote:
Hans:
I think even the type1 texgyre isn't by definition metric compatible.
Metric compatibility was one of the major targets of the TeX Gyre project.
Sure, definitely for the type1s, but also that for opentype we would not
be strict (one never knows what follow up we will have).
Visually there are of course differences (accent placement etc) so one
can expect visual differences when doing trickery that depends on exact
visual properties (like putting multiple accents on top of things) in
which case probably even the type1 drop in could be a problem. (I'm
talking tex now where open type fonts don't have the type1/tfm relates
limitations in w/h/d). In practice a document that doesn't embed and
expects e.g. times is not typeset that clever so problems are unlikely
to show up. (Users who don't embed shouldn't complain about quality of
rendering anyway.)
Hans
ps. A way bigger nightmare can be lucida as there are many incompatible
variants of that one and then there are also cross platform viewing
issues. But I assume these are normally embedded, but even then bad
things can happen, e.g. with included images in documents that have no
embedded fonts too. But afaik we left that time behind us.
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