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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Generating PDF's in kword: font problems
From:       Unai Garro <uga () ee ! ed ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2003-01-27 21:22:52
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Mmm... adding the font path to qt's configuration has the same effect: it 
embeds type3 fonts in the pdf file which results in undesirable quality.

As it seems that people doesn't understand what's the actual problem, I'll 
share these files for a while: 



1) a screenshot of kword with those nice fonts
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~uga/shot.png

2)The PDF file created under kword. The fonts are selected to be EMBEDDED. 
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~uga/print.pdf

3) A screenshot of the pdf file, in case someone doesn't have Acrobat Reader 
installed.
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~uga/shot2.png


If you see the pdf file under ghostview/kghostview it looks ok, but try to 
open it under Acrobat Reader, and you'll see what I mean. See File->Document 
Properties->Fonts for more info on the file.

!!!!

Now, thanks to you I found this:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/x346.html

I didn't know that it was possible to actually convert ttf fonts to type 1, 
but it seems to be indeed (I haven't tried yet)

This has a few drawbacks I guess:

1) You need to convert the fonts to Type1 first

2) One has to choose the proper one in kword (not ttf that looks ok....)



On Monday 27 January 2003 20:57, you wrote:
> On Monday 27 January 2003 11:31, Unai Garro wrote:
> [TrueType Fonts embedded into PostScript look ugly because they are
> embedded as Bitmap (Type3) fonts]
>
> > So far I can oly think of two solutions:
> >
> > 1) Add a printer menu: "Convert all fonts to Type1", with a list of
> > fonts that more or less accurately replace those fonts.
> >
> > 2) Indicate in the font selection combo if the fonts are ttf or type1
> > (or whatever else)
>
> Did you try to check "Enable Font Embedding" in the printers tab of
> "qtconfig"? You can add Font Paths to search embeddable TTFs there. And
> did you add the TTF directory to Ghostscript's Fontmap file?
>
> Ciao, Matthias

 
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