Subject: Re: XP PS printing (was Re: unix font handling)
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 09:22:44 CST
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> At 12:04 AM +0400 1/31/01, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > I think that XP PS export is not worth the efforts
>
> As the person who originally suggested it, it IS worth the
> effort if you look at it as a bridge to "smart PDF documents". By
> generating our own Postscript (on ANY platform) we can incorporate
> PDFMarks - PS extensions that allow one to specify PDF features to
> Distiller/Ghostscript.
Yes, this is the only thing XP PS is useful for. But if we want XP PS we
will need to use FreeType or similar to query glyph dimensions XP.
>
> > Also, it still would be nice to make AW full supporting TTFs (even with
> >non-unicode ttf fonts).
> >
> Agreed. I believe the latest version of pdfTeX now supports
> TTFs and properly writing them out to PS and PDF, so that's probably
> a good place to look.
Nice hint!
>
> Leonard
> --
Best regards,
-Vlad
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