From koffice  Wed Sep 01 11:57:19 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () caldera ! de>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 11:57:19 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Printing "strange" fonts
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Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, Leon Widdershoven wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >could anyone tell me if printing strange fonts (defined as fonts
> >not available in the printer ROM) is supported for koffice
> >applications?
> >
> >I try to print something from killustrator, but the fonts are
> >replaced by real boring ones. I'd like to know whether this
> >is due to erroneous configuartion by me, a missing feature
> >in Qt, or a missing feature in KDE.
> >
> >The killustrator I use now is a KDE 1.1.1 version, Qt is at 1.44.
> >
> >Could it be that at Qt2, KDE2, KOffice(KDE2) this is
> >implemented?
> 
> As printing is done using postscript only fonts which are also
> available as postscript fonts on your sestem can be printed. All other fonts
> (e.g. TrueType) are replaced by some postscript fonts for printing, so you get
> a different result. Printing is really a pain under Unix :-((
> 
Hmm, I think I already painted TrueType using Postsript. Under windows
it "just" ships the fonts in the postscript document. 

Greetings, Stephan

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