pdftex bug
Martin Münch
Martin.Muench at Uni-Bonn.de
Wed Sep 13 11:00:43 CEST 2023
Hi!
cfftot1 changed its output "to work around pdftex bug":
https://github.com/kohler/lcdf-typetools/commit/606aa7236133a97c295f80bfd29a33ca022ddc05
> Fix output of cfftot1 to work around pdftex bug.
>
> The default precision of real-number output, %.12g, could lead
> to very long FontMatrix output lines. For one font (mentioned in
> issue #34), you would see:
>
> /FontMatrix [0.000833333333333 0 0 0.000833333333333 0 0] readonly def
>
> This apparently overflows some code path in pdflatex, because the
> output PDF file does not render the font. This commit instead uses
> 9 decimal digits of precision, which leads to
>
> /FontMatrix [0.000833333333 0 0 0.000833333333 0 0] readonly def
>
> and a correctly rendered PDF after pdftex inclusion and processing.
>
> Simultaneously, do not output defaulted keys (like BlueShift 7),
> and always output BlueValues (it is required).
Would it be possible to change pdflatex to handle more than 9 digits?
cfftot1 might not be the only way to create them.
Regards
Martin
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