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commit ff71b0caa1e1b89e3ad235f91cb97dec3170c632
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Jun 23 18:57:34 2025 -0500
NEWS: Add item for gropdf's new "SS" font.
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NEWS | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
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@@ -674,6 +674,16 @@ Output drivers
embedded. See also the item regarding `PDFPIC` above. Thanks to
Deri James.
+* gropdf now supplies its own "SS" (slanted symbol) font to improve
+ rendering of documents requiring slanted lowercase Greek letters,
+ such as those employing the eqn(1) preprocessor. groff supplies the
+ font in PFB format, and gropdf automatically embeds it, as it is not
+ a standard PDF font. Formerly, groff's "pdf.tmac" file defined
+ fallback characters for lowercase Greek letters, applying a slant of
+ 16 degrees to the upright glyphs available in the standard symbol
+ font "S". That technique produced glyphs that were slightly too
+ large for those accustomed to grops's "SS" font.
+
* grops(1), the PostScript output driver, now supports fonts encoded
using UTF-16. Indicate the encoding by including the string
"-UTF16-" within the font's name as specified by the "internalname"
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