Pango & printing?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

This problem can up recently in Dia development:  What is the best way to
print ([E]PS) with Pango?  I would expect to dump at least the relevant
parts of the fonts used into the PS file, but PAPS seemingly just dumps PS
drawing primitives.  Don't we lose a lot of useful information when we go
from a font to drawing primitives?  Useful information including:  Font
name & style, ability to have the font defined only once when including
multiple PS files, ability to tell what is text in the PS file, and hinting
information.  

-Lars

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