[Bug 458476] RFE: Support OpenType CFF fonts

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--- Comment #8 from Vasile Gaburici <gaburici at cs.umd.edu>  2008-08-09 13:34:47 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> Created an attachment (id=313875)
 --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=313875) [details]
> upstreams version, targeted for 3.2
> 
> so upstream already has that much for layout the font displaying it, what's
> missing is the printing and pdf export portion apparently

A problem solved a couple of year back in XeTeX. The solution is not ideal, but
works ok in practice: CFF fonts get converted on the fly to CID-keyed Type 1
fonts (/CIDFontType0); the embedding does not use a /FontFile3 Subtype key,
which is the direct way to embed a CFF font in a PDF.

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