Subject: Re: Printing with True Type Fonts - a possible solution
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 11:40:22 CDT
At 11:53 AM -0400 10/24/00, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
>Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> >
> > >Couldn't AbiWord do something similar?
>>
>> It could, but it would be better to do the right thing and
>> convert them to Type 42 and insert that into the Postscript stream.
>
>The standalone utilities I have seen to convert TTF -> pt1,pt3 can
>convert many, but not all fonts.
Tyep 42 is a special format used ONLY for embedding a TT font
into a Postscript stream - it is NOT a stand alone format, and as
such can be used for (almost) any TT font. The one exception being
the case where a TT font has it's "don't embed" flag set - but that's
as it should be.
Leonard
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