Created attachment 59208 [details] PDF referring base 14 fonts without embedding Although it is commented as "not sure" in GlobalParamsWin.cc // TODO: not sure if "wingding.ttf" is right {"ZapfDingbats", "d050000l.pfb", "wingding.ttf"}, the substitution of ZapfDingbats by Wingding may not work. Here I upload a small testing PDF that refers base14 fonts with standard & alternative names. The line for ZapfDingbats are totally lost. I will try to improve.
Created attachment 59210 [details] rasterized image by pdftoppm (0.19.1) running on GNU/Linux
Created attachment 59211 [details] rasterized image by pdftoppm (git d6a1b7dcaeac1e49533519b9f8a279fd64d04c67) running on GNU/Linux Here are 2 images converted by pdftoppm running on GNU/Linux. It has no problem, because ZapfDingbats-compatible font is installed by Ghostscript environment. The difference between 0.19.1 and GIT d6a1b7dcaeac1e49533519b9f8a279fd64d04c67 is by Thomas Freitag's improvement (thanks to Thomas!)
Created attachment 59214 [details] rasterized image by pdftoppm (0.19.1) running on Win32 (MinGW)
Created attachment 59215 [details] rasterized image by pdftoppm (git d6a1b7dcaeac1e49533519b9f8a279fd64d04c67) running on Win32 (MinGW) Here are 2 images rasterized by pdftoppm running on Win32 (MinGW). You cannot find the line for ZapfDingbats (left-lowest).
Considering that Dingbats is already included in ISO/IEC 10646 (U+2700 - U+27BF), the right attitude to use Dingbats with TrueType fonts would be 1) finding a TrueType font supporting Dingbats character set, and 2) map from the 8bit codepoint for ZapfDingbats Type1 font to UCS. However, the Dingbats blocks of UCS is not same with ZapfDingbats. Some arrows, stars etc are recognized as "already coded at different blocks", so simple mathematical translation (e.g. 0x2700 + ZapfDingbats 8bit code) is insufficient. Some mapping table would be needed. I wish if iconv() supports such translation between old 8bit cod and UCS, but it seems that GNU libiconv() does not support Dingbat. In addition, it seems that no compact font supporting Dingbats is bundled to Microsoft Windows. The fonts supporting Dingbats are huge fonts, like, Arial Unicode, MS-Mincho, MS-Gothic, MingLiU, etc. It is difficult to determine which is most portable.
Markus Kuhn’s uniset <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/uniset.tar.gz> includes the mapping table in zdingbats.txt. I think fontconfig also may have that mapping, although uniset’s also includes each character’s postscript glyph name.
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