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Subject: Re: Generating PDF's in kword: font problems
From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date: 2003-01-31 14:15:38
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On Monday 27 January 2003 13:31, Unai Garro wrote:
| Yes, I tried them, but as I said, the fonts are embedded in bitmap format
| (Type 3) anyway, so the quality is not really good. I tried to increase
| the resolution of the fonts to 2400dpi and this improves a bit the result,
| but the difference with Type1 fonts is immense.
|
| As far as you don't use ttf fonts there's no problem. You can easily use
| fonts such as "Times" (Type1), but not "Times New Roman" or "Verdana" or
| "Arial",... etc which are ttf.
I have somewhere Type1 variants of Arial and Times New Roman (made by me, for
*testing purposes*), I can send you those in private mail.
IMO, Type1 fonts suit much better current KDE/Linux printing model
(GhostScript, etc.). Better avoid using TrueType fonts.
Good alternative to Type1 fonts are OpenType fonts (.otf), but unfotunately
Qt-3.1 can't embed those fonts in generated PS/PDF files.
They are rendered fine on screen, though.
|
| 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.
BTW: you can do that with PfaEdit
|
| 2) Indicate in the font selection combo if the fonts are ttf or type1 (or
| whatever else)
Or you can install Type1 fonts only.
|
| > Did you try to play with the "Driver Settings" tab in the printer
| > properties dialog for the pseudo printer write-to-PDF? There, you
| > can tune some options concerning fonts when converting PS to PDF,
| > like the PDF font embedding or font resolution.
| >
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