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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Printing "strange" fonts
From:       Leon Widdershoven <l.widdershoven () fz-juelich ! de>
Date:       1999-09-01 12:52:59
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Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> 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

Doesn't Windows just render all characters of the non-postscript font
to bitmaps of certain size and refer to those bitmaps when this 
particular font is requested? 
This seems to me as the easiest implementation.

A little bit like my solution; make a tremendously large kimage paper
(A0), export it as ppm, start xv and print to ps.

BTW: koffice has a great FAQ at its website; would this be a question
to include? It's kind of strange to be able to select a beautifull 
font, only to find out that you get times (or so) when you print it:). 

Leon

BTW: My signature is not targeted at office programmers in general,
only at those who are only in it for the money:) (and who could 
those be?)
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