[OS X TeX] (Off topic?) A problem with the Latin Modern Opentype fonts

[Franck Pastor]

Le 09-juil.-08 à 14:04, Bruno Voisin a écrit :
>>
>>> 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.

Not for me, I've just tried. Maybe because I'm still on Tiger? The  
ability to open .otd files could be a new feature of TextEdit on  
Leopard.

>
> 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).

Indeed, that's what I did for the TextEdit test file (in rtf format).  
I wondered if it was possible with a otd file inside NeoOffice  
itself. Apparently not.

>
> - Or export to PDF from NeoOffice, then open the PDF in Adobe  
> Reader and use Properties (Cm-D).

I should have thought of that…

> Or, if you've installed the xpdf tools, use the pdffonts command- 
> line utility.

That I didn't knew. Thanks again!

>
> 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
>
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