From koffice  Wed Sep 01 12:07:16 1999
From: Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 12:07:16 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Printing "strange" fonts
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On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
>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. 

How does this work. I mean I really don't know a lot about postscript, but do
you mean by extending QPrinter we can print TrueType fonts?

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Reggie