Re: Pango & printing?

[Christof Pintaske - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Christof Pintaske sun com>]

Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

> Le Mon, Jul 01, 2002, à 11:28:01AM -0700, Keith Packard a écrit:
>  
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> > Around 12 o'clock on Jul 1, Lars Clausen wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > What is the best way to print ([E]PS) with Pango?
> > >      
> > Include the font with the EPS.  That avoids any possibility that the 
> > target device wouldn't know about the font.
> >    
>
> What happens if the font is huge (eg: Lucida Unicode), and we actually want
> to send only a dozen glyphs? Can we avoid carrying five megs worth of
> outlines then?
>
> 	-- Cyrille

Hi,

for what it's worth.
For OpenOffice.org (and StarOffice) we convert TrueType to Type42 when 
the printer supports it (the capability is described in the printer 
description file (PPD). Otherwise we convert it to Type3. Type3 fonts 
appear a little bit "bolder" than normal. We always do a font 
subsetting, downloading exactly the requested glyphs in to the file.

It just works. If you are interested in having a look at the code I can 
send you some pointers (no need to grab the whole openoffice cvs archive).

best regards
Christof