[XeTeX] IM Fell Type and XeTeX

[S. Ekin Kocabas]

I used FontForge to rescale IM Fell to use 1000 unit emsqure, it then worked
fine. I must say that I didn't like the way diacritics looked for "ç" and
"ş"...

Ekin


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan at jfkew.plus.com>wrote:

> On 10 Feb 2009, at 22:21, Pepe Romero wrote:
>
> > Hello, I am testing in XeTeX the gorgeous Fell typefaces,
> > digitalized and issued freely by Igino Marini (
> http://iginomarini.com/fell/
> > ). (Please do try them.)
> > I have a problem, though. In XeTeX (latest TeX Live 2008) the
> > letters of the text appear typset one over another (as if there was
> > a kerning problem).
> > When using other software (e.g., QuarkXPress) the text is typset ok.
> > Any ideas?
> > Romero
>
>
> This is a problem that shows up when using OpenType/CFF fonts that do
> not use the normal 1000-unit emsquare that is traditional for
> PostScript outlines. If you view the PDF with an older version of
> Acrobat Reader (e.g., version 5 or even 7, I think) the text will
> display correctly, but Reader 8 disregards the font matrix entry and
> this results in mis-scaled glyphs.
>
> I think that current versions of evince or other poppler-based viewers
> will also display correctly, but some older versions would have
> problems.
>
> There has been some previous discussion of this, as there are a couple
> of recent Adobe fonts that show the same problem. I think it can
> reasonably be considered a bug in the PDF reader(s), especially given
> how the behavior has changed between releases of Adobe's products, but
> I don't know if they will change it again to restore the previous
> behavior.
>
> Fixing it in xdvipdfmx would involve a change to how CFF fonts are
> handled; I'd be happy to accept a patch for this but have not had time
> to work on it myself.
>
> If you try the TrueType version of the fonts, those should work fine.
> Despite what the web page says, it looks like these also include the
> OpenType layout features -- at least the one I looked at did.
>
> JK
>
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