On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 04:34:57PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> On 08/17/2010 03:05 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Do PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX "subset the font" in this way?
> >>
> >>Yes, this is the default. So unless you have manually interfered, the
> >>included fonts are always subsetted.
> >
> >I'm interested in the other way around, how can I tell luatex (or
> >context) to not subset the font,
> 
>   \enabledirectives[fonts.embedall]

Thanks.

> >and I read that some recent version of
> >PDF specification allow embedding of unchanged opentype fonts (as
> >compared to converting them to type1 fonts), does luatex support (or
> >plan to support) that feature?
> 
> In LuaTeX, we are not converting to Type1, OpenType fonts are always
> embedded as CID Type0C, Truetype as CID TrueType. But some OT tables
> are stripped for efficiency reasons (GSUB and GPOS, for example).

I can't tell a difference :) I'm just interested in being able to
extract the full font from PDF with all tables and stuff (they are my
fonts, so the legal side is sorted out), but I don't actually have a use
case for that :)

Regards,
 Khaled

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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