I'm trying to convert a bunch of true type fonts with unicode encoding to type1 with microsoft-cp1252. I'm afraid it has to be cp1252 (or adobe-fontspecific for that matter) since I need them for word processing and standard latin encoding is not enough.
As I understand it, iso8859-1 does not define the codes 127 to 160 while cp1252 makes use of these codes and still sticks to a 8bit map. So I figured it should be possible to build type1 fonts with cp1252 encoding. Has anybody tried to do this before or am I getting something completely wrong here? Provided I'm not completely mistaken, can anybody recommend some tools that convert ttf to type1 and support custom *output* encodings? I tried the latest ttf2pt1 package with the modifications by Sergey Babkin. The ttf2pt1 scripts support custom encoding tables, but although I wrote tables for iso10646-1 and ms-cp1252, re-mapping doesn't work. Codes 127-160 remain blank and I even get funny results for codes >160: the latin characters are replaced by cyrillic ones. So I took a look at the ttf2pfb binary that comes with freetype. It supports multiple encoding tables, but it looks like this works for various *input* encodings only. The resulting type1 fonts I got were always standard latin. I spent the entire weekend trying to figure this out and it drives me crazy... Can anybody help me out here? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
