Re: True Type fonts

David Schmitz (david@ecsd.com)
Tue, 07 Sep 1999 13:14:23 -0400


Pierre Abbat wrote:
>
> >Our solution is to keep a copy of scalable Type 1 fonts locally,
> >and use the X metrics for screen drawing and the Type 1 metrics
> >for printing.
>
> Is there a way to convert TrueType fonts to Type 1 and put them where both
> AbiWord and Ghostscript (which in my system are on different machines) can find
> them?
>
> phma
The short answer is yes. I've been doing some research on the subject;
poking around the abiword sources, readign up on postscript, etc.

A great source of information is
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/printing.html
The solution, it would seem is to convert them to Type 42, which, if I
understand correctly, can be embedded into a .ps file. The thing is that
your printer (or ghostscript) has to be able to understand how to deal
with Type 42 fonts. (Which my version of ghostscript does.) The best
thing about the way of doing it this way is that you don't have to worry
about dealing with FreeType's differing license if you're getting the
truetype fonts via the X server, and IIRC, there are a couple of TTF to
T42 converters which are GPL'd.

The problem is that right now, I'm not familiar enough with a)
postscript and b) abiword's font/printing stuffs to yet take a crack at
it.

Well, I think I've babbled on enough.

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David Schmitz
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