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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Generating PDF's in kword: font problems
From:       Ferdinand Gassauer <gassauer () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-01-26 21:44:19
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On Sunday 26 January 2003 22:04, Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> On Sunday 26 January 2003 14:43, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > The overall problem is that we use QT to do the Postscript output.
> >
> > So as long as we cannot control the Postscript output, we cannot change
> > anything to such problems as yours.
>
> Yes I have the same problem, ps is ok, I can print and view it
> (kghostview), but output directly to pdf or ps2pdf produces bad output.
>
> (SuSE 8.1, gs 7.05.5)
>
> > (Having our own Postscript generation for KOffice is planned, but as it
> > is a huge work, it is not really something we can do with the little
> > manpower that we currently have.)
> >
> > As for porting anything from OpenOffice, I do not think that it would
> > work. In general, the OpenOffice code is too different to be integrated
> > into KOffice.
> >
> > So the only thing that you can do is to use Type 1 fonts in KWord, so
> > that the Postscript output contains type 1 fonts and that ps2pdf does not
> > convert them to bitmap fonts (as it seems to do with type 3 fonts.)
>
> Hmm!
> 1) which user knows the difference? -> no viable solution!
> 2) AFAIK all variabale spaced fonts produce garbish.
>
> > Have a nice day/evening/night!
> >
> > On Sunday 26 January 2003 03:59, Unai Garro wrote:
> > > Ok, it seems that the issue is related to ghostscript. I had a look at
> > > the documents... and the fonts that are embedded into the pdf files are
> > > Type 3 fonts (bitmap fonts AFAIK) so the quality is not as good as Type
> > > 1 fonts.
> > >
> > > I wonder how OpenOffice manages to do this with their pdf converter.
> > > Does anyone know? Would it be possible to port this thing to a driver
> > > for kword? Or even use the one provided by OpenOffice? The quality is
> > > really good since they embed Type1 fonts.
> > >
> > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Unai Garro wrote:
> > > > I'm having problems with kword to print fonts properly into PDF/PS
> > > > files. I'm using current cvs HEAD, but I guess this should apply to
> > > > earlier versions as well.
> > > >
> > > > The problem refers to printing add-on ttf fonts, such as (for
> > > > example) webfonts.
> > > >
> > > > First of all, I added the fonts to the XFree config file, so they're
> > > > displayed properly. But the problem comes when trying to generate a
> > > > pdf file. I have found two options so far:
> > > >
> > > > 1) disable the font embedding in the system printing options, so I
> > > > get these fonts replaced by others. They look ok, but they're not the
> > > > ones I want.
> > > >
> > > > 2) enable embedding the fonts, which leads to have really weird fonts
> > > > in the pdf(really bad quality).
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone had this problem before? Any way to solve it?
>
> ->> fixed fonts :-((

Hmm! 
After changing the font size and playing around a while it also worked with 
variable fonts - I am confused ?????

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