Oh rats, I forgot, the 1.0.12 release nobbled the peak annotations to be
Helvetica-10 in the C world (that is in the non-specific PDF code, hence
me not noticing it in the log files). But as I mentioned, Helvetica and
Times-Roman should be considered equally good in the eyes of the (Adobe)
Lord.
Wayne
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Gary S. Thompson wrote:
> Wayne Boucher wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >Looking at the CVS logs I can't see any changes between 1.0.10 and 1.0.12
> >to the PDF-specific parts of the code. But what is drawn will have no
> >doubt changed slightly between those two releases, and that means the PDF
> >that is output might be slightly different indirectly.
> >
> >Up to and through 1.0.12 the only font that was used in PostScript and PDF
> >was Times-Roman.
> >
>
> I am afraid thats not quite true 1.0.12 seams to outputting ps and pdf
> files with helvetica in them. If I grep for helvetica in an output ps
> file it is there
>
> e.g. grep -i -A5 -B5 elvetica connnections-co-85-91pair.ps
>
> PS_graphics_restore
> PS_graphics_save
> 186.26 104.74 PS_translate
> 365.49 0.00 39.93 279.89 PS_rectangle_clip
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 PS_set_color
> /Helvetica 12 PS_select_font
> 0.15 0.15 0.15 PS_set_color
> 383.45 101.41 387.21 105.17 PS_draw_line
> 383.45 105.17 387.21 101.41 PS_draw_line
> 388.15 106.11 0.38 0.37 (B91T) PS_text
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 PS_set_color
>
>
> > In PDF you have to specify the font description
> >explicitly for all fonts except 14 special cases (Times-Roman, Helvetica,
> >Courier, and variants on those, and Symbol and ZapfDingbat), and for those
> >14 the PDF standard says they should be guaranteed to exist in the PDF
> >viewer (or driver or whatever) so they do not need a description. Since
> >Times-Roman and Helvetica are both special cases I'm not sure why you were
> >getting those error messages, unless your acrobat cannot find the fonts
> >for those special cases for some reason.
> >
> >In the next release we will have three fonts, Times-Roman, Courier and
> >Helvetica, available. So the PDF will definitely be slightly different
> >then.
> >
> >Wayne
> >
> >
>
> anyway it definitley seems to be a problem with helvetica on our suse 10
> boxes so I am going to try the same at home on ubuntu
>
> regards
> gary
>
> >On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Gary S. Thompson wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Dear developers
> >> Since upgrading to 1.0.12 I have been having some problems with pdf
> >>files, once I have printed to a pdf file when I open it in acrobat it
> >>
> >>1. complains that the file is damaged and must repair it (which it does)
> >>2. complains 'Could not find a font in the resources dictionary - using
> >>Helvetica instead'
> >>3. complains 'Cannot find or creat the font helvetica some characters
> >>maynot display properly'
> >>4. displays the spectrum with bullets instead of assignments
> >>
> >>so basically, help, has something changed here since 1.0.10??
> >>
> >>
> >>regards
> >>gary
> >>
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> >
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