Re: Improvements to Postscript backend (patches included)

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > But a CID resource is completely useless for us since we don't get
> > the corresponding CID value, AFAIK.  In case Pango does the CMap
> > resource handling (this is, we send a Unicode value and Pango
> > returns the CID) we can enable this again.
> 
> The current code does
> 
> /fontname /CIDFont findresource 17 scalefont setfont, where 17 is a
> random number.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, this is completely equivalent to /fontname 17
> selectfont, except that it's almost certainly slower.

You are probably right, but this code will (at least temporarily)
vanish, I think, since we aren't able currently to handle CIDFont
resources directly.


    Werner