Re: [Gnuplot-info] pdfcairo or pdf output font fails with Adobe Illustrator

[James C. <clo...@jh...>]

>>>>> "AC" == Andres Cimmarusti <aci...@gm...> writes:

AC> I decided to wait till Debian testing would get the upgraded versions
AC> of cairo 1.12 and pango 1.30, which happened today. Not sure which one
AC> did the trick, but everything works as expected now. I'm assuming it
AC> was the updated pango.

Cairo is much more likely.

AC> I think the problem lies in this difference:

AC> BEFORE:
AC> AGCFOR+ArialMT                       CID TrueType      yes yes yes      5  0

AC> AFTER UPGRADE:
AC> $ pdffonts sample_plot.pdf
AC> name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
AC> BNNLMS+ArialMT                       TrueType          yes yes yes      5  0
AC> MEXTZI+ArialMT                       CID TrueType      yes yes yes      6  0

That change is due to a request by the TeX community.  Certain tools
expect to find TeX strings in eps files; when the tools which generated
those eps file switched to cairo, that became much more difficult.  So
cairo was changed to embed anything which can fit in WinAnsi in a non-
CID font so that it can embed that text in ()-quoted strings instead of
using the <HEXHEXHEX> encoded strings which CID fonts require.

I suspect that the CMap objects also are different between 1.10 and 1.12,
and that *that* is the change which fixed your use case.

But that is only an hypothesis....

-JimC
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