Bug 689070

Summary: Font substituion less than ideal (not embedded in PDF)
Product: Ghostscript Reporter: Ray Johnston <ray.johnston>
Component: GeneralAssignee: Marcos H. Woehrmann <marcos.woehrmann>
Status: NOTIFIED DUPLICATE    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2    
Version: 8.54   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Customer: 770 Word Size: ---
Attachments: AC303122.pdf

Description Ray Johnston 2007-01-31 14:21:08 UTC 
This file uses the fonts: Lithos-Black TektonMM_240_250_ TektonMM_620_850_
but does not embed them. Adobe Acrobat Reader approximates these (using
an Adobe prorietary method) with their Multi-Master font technology.

Since the substituted fonts don't really match the fonts that the document
creator used the view shown by Acrobat Reader is also incorrect.

The correct thing is to have the creator of the PDF embed all of the fonts
used in the document, otherwise the person viewing the document on another
system will not see the correct image.

Short of implementing a multi-master font technology there is no way for
Artifex/Ghostscript to generate a drastically better font substitution,
although asymmetric scaling of the chosen font could come a bit closer.
Comment 1 Ray Johnston 2007-01-31 14:22:26 UTC 
Created attachment 2725 [details]
AC303122.pdf
Comment 2 Ray Johnston 2007-02-07 10:07:33 UTC 
We will investigate the possibility of asymmetric font scaling as a
way to better than now.

As an enhancement issue, this is may not be done soon.
Comment 3 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2009-06-09 10:03:46 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 687475 ***
Comment 4 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2011-09-18 21:46:25 UTC 
Changing customer bugs that have been resolved more than a year ago to closed.