Re: dia 0.90: printing Japanese using --enable-freetype ?

[Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>]

Le Wed, Jun 05, 2002, à 04:37:20PM +0200, Mike Fabian a écrit:


>     [... snip ...]
>
>      /xi /xi /xi /xi /xi /xi /xi /xi /xi /xi /xi /xi /xi /xi /xi /xi
>     ] /e0 exch def

Can you unsnip the complete array ?

> The problem is not only that one cannot print the Asian glyphs, one
> cannot print anything correctly when using these fonts, not even a
> simple ASCII string like "xyz". If this problem is solved, I guess
> printing will work for east Asian languages when '--enable-freetype'
> is used.

Does it work, in your experience, when --disable-freetype ?

Which locale are you using ?
 
> Looking into the above postscript file, I see that in both cases the
> "xyz" is encoded as "( !")", i.e. only one byte is used for each
> character. How is this supposed to work for a font which has much more
> than 256 characters? Is the font split up in smaller portions? Does
> /OmegaSerif88591_e0 specify a subset of the /OmegaSerif88591 font?

Yes:

>     /Kochi-Mincho_e0 undefinefont
>     /Kochi-Mincho_e0
>       /Kochi-Mincho findfont
>       dup length dict begin
>       {1 index /FID ne {def} {pop pop} ifelse} forall
>       /Encoding e0 def
>       currentdict end
>     definefont pop

Unfortunately, this doesn't work as well in practice for non-latinN as I
originally thought it would. Proper solution will require talking CID and
doing some font matching (which is best done by Pango).

        -- Cyrille

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