[lug] xpdf and type 3 fonts

[D. Stimits]

Ken Weinert wrote:
> 
> Type 3 fonts are embedded in the document and are created by streams of
> PDF graphics operators.

Interesting. Sounds like the embedding scheme's format has some form of
o/s dependency, and the program doesn't deal with it.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> 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