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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: CUPS progress?
From:       Michael Olbrich <michael.olbrich () gmx ! net>
Date:       2003-07-20 10:16:53
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Hi,

On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 02:20:06AM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >If we can find out what fonts a printer suports, why don't we start
> >embeding fonts, when the user selcts a font that is not surported by the
> >printer?
> 
> That would obviously be an option on printers that supported that. 

I didn't know that there are printers that don't support it.

> Obviously, if the user had chosen to allow embedding for that printer and 
> the printer supported embedded fonts, there wouldn't be any restrictions on 
> which software fonts could be used.

You're talking about the qt configuration option, right? I don't like
that one, because it's always or never. That's ok for printing to file,
but not when we know it better. Many users don't understand that option
anyway.

So, when printing to a printer the fonts should be embeded only if
possible (=printer supports embeded fonts) and necessary (printer
doesn't have the font). This should be independant from the qt option.

> But getting back to the problem that CD found which is what we do not want. 
>  The print preview looked perfect, but when he printed the document it 
> didn't have the same fonts that were shown in the preview. :-(

That should never happen of course. But not using the font at all should
be the last thing to to, if everything else fails.

Michael

 
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