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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Font embedding -- TrueType
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2003-08-13 21:42:22
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Lars Knoll wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 August 2003 07:27, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>I have found that there *IS* a reason not to embed fonts -- TrueType fonts
>>at least.
> 
> 
> Just FYI, there is also a big reason against it, at least when printing to a 
> postscript/pdf file: Document portability. Without embedding you cannot rely 
> on the receiver of the document seeing it exactly the same way you do.

You can have GhostScript or Acrobat embed the font when you make a PDF. 
Which would, again, be a better solution.  Not embedding would also be the 
normal choice when you send out a PS to be printed.

But, in both cases, either the bug needs to be fixed on the PS files need 
to be edited by hand first. :-(

But, I was just talking about printing on you own system.

Is there any chance that Qt will have the feature like Scribus to choose 
which fonts are embedded?
> 
>>Currently the Type 42 font embedding in Qt doesn't work so TrueType fonts
>>are converted to Type 3 fonts which results is a loss of rendering quality.
> 
> The quality loss you get from the conversion is rather small on high 
> resolution printers. What you loose is hinting and the effect of hinting gets 
> less and less as your resolution increases.
> 
Perhaps your converter is better than: "ttf2pt1" -- Type 1 fonts made with 
it don't look very good.

> I agree that offering type42 would be preferable, but this would need a 
> significant amount of work to enable subsetting of fonts. Currently the code 
> we have for embedding as type42 can only embed whole fonts, leading to 10-20M 
> documents when used with asian text. Clearly nothing one wants and I prefer 
> converting to type3 instead.

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JRT

 
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