Re: CJK PDF support

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:37:33AM -0800, Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Not seeing an answer for a month, I stared working on this. My specific 
> need is to make PDF work with ttf fonts, big fonts which generally has around 
> 30000+ glyphs in them, currently there's no support for those complex fonts ( it 
> is supported in PS printing by divding the big font into a series of font pages) 
> in PDF and I'm looking into that now.
> 	
> 	The direction I'm taking is to subset the original font into simple ttf 
> fonts having 256 characters each and use them for showing the glyph.
> 	
> 	Just want to make sure effort is not duplicated, that's why I sent the 
> mail.

Sounds good.  Font subsetting is definitely going to be useful.  Are
you doing this at the gnome-print level or down in the pdf generator ?
I'd rather see it in the core so that other backends can use the
results too.