Re: Printing a Gnome canvas

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 13:40, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:57:50AM +0000, Michael Meeks wrote: 
> > 	It'd be a nice feature to have though :-) [ although, as you say there
> > are some interesting issues with screen vs. print fonts ].
> 
> This should be resolvable with fontconfig, as we have the font files
> available for the screen fonts. There's code used by Qt that we can
> also use for downloading those to the printer, handling subsetting for
> i18n and all that. (At least I think that's what the code does.)  The
> key is to use fontconfig, screw the stupid old-style X fonts.

We had code in gnome-print to download fonts to the printer (embed them
in the .ps or .pdf file) forever, we do need to handle font subsetting
thought.

Chema


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