Subject: Re: unix font handling and printing under utf-8 locale
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 10:17:07 CST
At 7:27 PM +0400 1/31/01, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > That's only useful if you are printing through GS. If you
>> are going direct to a PS printer then it won't help.
>>
>
> BTW, are there any printers out there supporting TTFs?
Natively, sure - all Postscript Level 2 and above printers.
PS Level 2 introduced support for "native TTF" using something called
a Type 42 font (which is really a TTF wrapped in a special way for
PS).
> > Or we should only include them once - not for each page!
>
> Of course. Do you have any ideas how to achieve this?
I haven't looked at our PS generator, but it would seem easy
to only call the "font exporter" once.
> > In which case FT would handle it automatically for us - and
>> not have to special case.
>
> Do you mean it understands those extended CJK XLFDs?
I don't know what an XLFD is - I assume it's some funky X
hack. However, FT fully handles CJK TTF's without the need for any
extra information.
Leonard
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