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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Printing "strange" fonts
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () caldera ! de>
Date:       1999-09-01 12:19:34
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Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
Well, I had to boot windows to know for sure. But I remember quite well
the
options in the postscript driver to transfer the TrueType fonts or if I
want
to use Postscript fonts. I know about Postscript as much as the file
extension,
but I guess you have to describe the fonts yourself and this is going to
be a
major rewrite. But it has to work somehow as windows can print on our
postscript
printer just fine using any kind of fonts.

Greetings, Stephan

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