On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 03:57:01 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2023-06-14T00:53:42+0100, Deri wrote: > > This is using a real font, deleted pdf:SS. > > Looks great! It's not led astray by the superscripts or anything. > > Regards, > Branden
Hi Branden,
These are the files you need to put in your devpdf directory to get similar
results. In addition you need to change this line in the DESC file:-
fonts 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 SS S ZD
And add this line to the download file:-
Symbol-Slanted ./StandardSymSL.pfb
I'm not completely happy with the .pfb file (my first time hacking on fonts
with fontforge).
I took the normal StandardSymbol font, removed all glyphs which are not named
in the postscript SS font, applied a transformation matrix which reduced the
glyphs to 89% and introduced a skew of 15.5 degrees, and corrected the extrema
nodes. This produced the attached .pfb file. The problem is that the .afm file
fontforge produced was the same as the original file, i.e. the glyph shapes
had shrunk and skewed but their bounding boxes had not been recalculated. In
addition the given widths included LH and RH bearings (gaps before and after
each glyph) were included in each width. So I cheated and copied the grops SS
file to create the gropdf SS file, this works because gropdf always includes a
custom encoding table and widths table taken from the groff font information,
but I would be happier if someone could generate a font where the .afm file
matched the information in the symbolsl.afm file in the devps directory.
Cheers
Deri
StandardSymSL.pfb
Description: application/font-type1
# This file has been generated with GNU afmtodit (groff) version 1.20.1 # # FullName Symbol Slanted # Version 001.008 # FamilyName Symbol # # The original AFM file contains the following comments: # # Notice Copyright (c) 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1997 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. # Comment Copyright (c) 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1997 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. # Comment Creation Date: Thu May 1 15:12:25 1997 # Comment UniqueID 43064 # Comment VMusage 30820 39997 name SS internalname Symbol-Slanted special slant 15.5 spacewidth 223 charset space 223 0 32 space +h 562,614,16,133,-58,99 3 74 theta1 ts 391,445,208,151,-28,99 3 86 sigma1 *a 562,445,16,145,-34,99 3 97 alpha *b 489,659,198,139,58,99 3 98 beta *x 489,445,206,134,98,99 3 99 chi *d 440,658,17,181,-32,99 3 100 delta *e 391,447,17,127,1,99 3 101 epsilon *f 464,599,199,106,-28,99 3 102 phi *g 366,444,200,252,-42,99 3 103 gamma *y 537,457,180,68,-50,68 3 104 eta *i 293,448,15,53,-47,53 3 105 iota +f 537,444,199,117,-42,99 3 106 phi1 *k 489,446,0,182,-56,99 3 107 kappa *l 489,658,15,91,29,91 3 108 lambda *m 513,445,198,70,68,70 3 109 mu *n 464,451,14,134,-69,99 3 110 nu *o 489,444,17,86,-36,86 3 111 omicron *p 489,433,17,161,-8,99 3 112 pi *h 464,614,15,140,-53,99 3 113 theta *r 489,444,205,82,69,82 3 114 rho *s 537,445,19,175,-37,99 3 115 sigma *t 391,445,17,170,-45,99 3 116 tau *u 513,451,16,95,-55,95 3 117 upsilon +p 635,519,16,173,-28,99 3 118 omega1 *w 611,445,15,126,-35,99 3 119 omega *c 439,681,200,126,-20,99 3 120 xi *q 611,445,203,198,-91,99 3 121 psi *z 440,673,200,190,-50,99 3 122 zeta
