Subject: Re: unix fonts -- using free type
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 08:22:40 CST
At 10:00 AM +0000 1/31/01, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>I do not think we should need to use freetype, or any other font-
>specific library,
One nice things about FreeType is that supports a LARGE
number of different font formats via "plug-ins".
>this should be the business of the PS interpreter, e.g., ghostscript.
Depends on what you plan to do with the PS. If you are ONLY
planning on printing it on the same machine that you are typing on,
AND you are NOT using a native PS printer - then it would be fine.
BUT if you are sending the PS directly to a PS printer, then it would
need the font data in the PS document in order to correctly render
the fonts. OR if you intend to use the PS file on another computer
with a potentially different font set. OR if you plan to convert the
PS to PDF.
>We should really just be able to create a PS file
>that says 'use this of this name and this size to print xyz', we
>should not need to know whether that font is Type1, or ttf, or even
>bitmapped. Surely there must be way to do this.
>
There is, BUT it's only viable in the one situation above -
and I would argue that's the one case with the smallest number of
potential users.
Leonard
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