On Saturday, 26 November 2022 20:23:22 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > This is probably of most interest to Deri but I thought I'd send it to > the list. > > This is kind of a follow-up to a message from July. > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2022-07/msg00145.html > > I'm playing with using the PostScript slanted symbol font ("SS") with > gropdf.
Hi Branden, I have looked at the SS font now. It is not included in devpdf because symbolsl.pfa is not a type 1 postscript font! It is a postscript program which generates a font when run by a postscript interpreter. The gropdf man page does say you can only use it with type 1 fonts. If you view the file you will see it is significantly different from other pfa files on your system. I don't think it is unreasonable for gropdf to barf over its contents, and viewers to barf as well. A reasonable error message when consuming a non type 1 file would be desirable. :-) Cheers Deri
