[OS X TeX] (Off topic?) A problem with the Latin Modern Opentype fonts
Bruno Voisin
bvoisin at mac.com
Wed Jul 9 08:04:50 EDT 2008
Le 9 juil. 08 à 13:46, Franck Pastor a écrit :
>> Thus it seems GUI applications are applying different heuristics
>> for grouping .otf font files into families, fonts and styles, and
>> some are more successful than others.
>>
>> BTW, you'll see the NeoOffice output contains actually Latin Modern
>> 10 regular and italic only, both scaled to 12 points.
>
> How could you notice that?
>
>> BTW2: thanks for pointing out that TextEdit can open .odt files.
>> Thus it seems Apple has built into OS X some Open Document Format
>> capabilities. Interesting...
>
> Sorry, but I never pointed that out :-) Actually, I don't know
> anything about that… I only made test files after the installation
> of the LM OTF fotns, that is to say two different (short) document,
> one for each (TextEdit and NeoOffice) and then noticed their behavior…
First, it really seems TextEdit reads .odt files. Don't know why, but
it works.
Second, here's how to verify the Latin Modern 12 fonts in a NeoOffice
document are actually 10 pt fonts scaled to 12 pt:
- Open the .odt file in TextEdit then use the font panel (Cmd-T).
- Or export to PDF from NeoOffice, then open the PDF in Adobe Reader
and use Properties (Cm-D). Or, if you've installed the xpdf tools, use
the pdffonts command-line utility.
Here's for example the pdffonts output for NeoOffice (first) and Word
2008 (second):
$ pdffonts /Users/bvoisin/Desktop/LM\ test.pdf
name type emb sub uni
object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- ---
---------
BAAAAA+LMRoman10-Regular Type 1C yes yes no
10 0
CAAAAA+LMRoman10-Italic Type 1C yes yes
no 5 0
$ pdffonts /Users/bvoisin/Desktop/LM\ Test\ Word.pdf
name type emb sub uni
object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- ---
---------
LARAJG+LMRoman12-Regular Type 1C yes yes
no 8 0
PAUAQT+LMRoman12-Italic Type 1C yes yes
no 9 0
Bruno Voisin
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