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Need help to know this font extract from a pdf doc

glias

Hello all,
I'm very interested in this font so I have analyzed the PDF document and discover that the font is "Plantin" "Identity-H encoding" (what does it mean ?)
I have this font but the visual aspect is not the same ! the original is smooth seems to be more condensed character. Do you know how I could have the same visual aspect ? is it the encoding that produce this effect ? or is it another font ?

I ish you could help me...

here is the original pdf (the font in which I'm interested is the text corpus)
http://www.analog.com/library/analogdialogue/archives/38-06/capacitive_l...

here is my font with the same text (first paragraph) with different font sizes :
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/9279/sanstitre.pdf

regards

Michael Yanega

I did a Google search on the term "Identity-H encoding", and basically it seems to mean double byte font encoding, which is used for extended character sets. It's not obvious to me why that should affect the way the font is displayed. Maybe one of our Adobe experts can help you.

- Mike Yanega

Michael Yanega

My amateur's guess is that your version of Plantin is not the same as they used. The way they are shown in the Properties>Fonts window is not the same. Yours is PS1, I think, and theirs is [F], whatever that is. Either a different font format, or a different version of Plantin than the one you used.

Maybe a PDF expert will help us out.

- Mike Yanega

Michel Boyer

I have no idea about that "Identity-H encoding". On the other hand, the original pdf was produced with InDesign that allows squooshing text i.e. applying a fixed factor on the width of each character in the text to make it more condensed. I think that is what was done to get those more condensed characters in the original text.

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