scriptituk/ttf2pscid2

TTF to PostScript Type 2 CIDFont Converter (Type 42)

ttf2pscid2's Issues

What could be the problem ?

I also wanted to know what is meant by the word directory(this is cmap?) in the example that was given, cidfont dup / sfnts %DIRECTORY <....>
And I would like to know what the array is for, the line above. Why are there two values ​​everywhere, and there are three, plus the third position is negative [100 6 -2].
And another question is how the Cyrillic alphabet is encoded, otherwise I have squares instead of Cyrillic.

how to use type 42 in a PostScript file?

I am a newer for Postscript, i want to output Chinese text to printer in PostScript. I use your tools to convert TTF to ps , like this
gswin64.exe -q -o- -dNODISPLAY -sttf=c:\windows\fonts\msyh.ttf -ssubset='中文abc123chinese' -st42=msyh2.ps ttf2pscid2.ps

I tried to write PostScript code in end of the msys2.ps file ,

/MicrosoftYaHei findfont 20 scalefont setfont
150 325 moveto
(中文abc123chinese) show

then use GSview to show the msys2.ps , content is messy code.
could help me to give me a example ? thanks!

Attempted to convert ttf file to cid file but ghostscript threw an error. It is asking for strintg.ps.

$ gs -q -o- -dNOSAFER -dNODISPLAY -sttf=NotoSansTamil-VariableFont.ttf -st42=NotoSansTamil-VariableFont.cid ttf2pscid2.ps
ERROR inc? need string.ps

Ghostscript's Version Details:
$ gs -v
GPL Ghostscript 9.55.0 (2021-09-27)
Copyright (C) 2021 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

Font inflation

This may be just an artifact of Postscript fonts, but there is a doubling of size when converting a TTF to T42 font.
Is there any way to compress the size ? Is there a way to make it a binary file rather than a text file (to reduce the size) ?
I have ArialUnicodeMS which goes from a 23MB TTF to 46MB t42 file!