[lug] xpdf and type 3 fonts

[Ken Weinert]

Type 3 fonts are embedded in the document and are created by streams of
PDF graphics operators.

On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 15:16, D. Stimits wrote:
> It isn't unusual to get xpdf messages saying that type 3 fonts are used
> in a pdf doc, and that it might not display right. Much of the time it
> works right anyway, but I ran into a document that was missing a lot
> (mathematics symbols), and I was wondering if anyone knows what it takes
> to get type 3 fonts available for xpdf? Is this something that is a
> limit of xpdf, or would it be improved upon by an X11 font install? For
> all I know, type 3 is some proprietary font that isn't available.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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