Re: Replace `-dgs-load-fonts' to `--bigpdfs' in lilypond-book (issue 300280043 by address@hidden)

[Werner LEMBERG]

> At least, in order to avoid broken glyphs, we will need to change
> whether or not embedding by the font type.

OK, so the issue is not integrating `extractpdfmark' into lilypond but
adjusting lilypond's font handling to make it work.

> Moreover, we will need to change font resource directory
> depending on the font type.
> 
> i.e.
> Japanese OTF: <fontresourcedir>/CIDFont/
> Other fonts?: <fontresourcedir>

Looks sensible.

> But, I have another idea.
> It does not need the font resource directory.
> To use a PostScript file which only contains font resources.
> It is one PostScript file and includes
> 
> `%%BeginFont`
> ~
> `%%EndFont`
> 
> blocks of all necessary fonts.
> I'm trying it.

Interesting!  And thanks for trying.


    Werner