Subject: Re: Printing with True Type Fonts - a possible solution
From: Pierre Abbat (phma@oltronics.net)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 21:31:59 CDT
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
>The TeX system converts fonts to embedded bitmap fonts when printing
>through postscript. Couldn't AbiWord do something similar? It would
>need to know the printer resolution and font metrics. Perhaps the user
>would have to configure the resolution of a printer to make TrueType
>fonts available.
Recent Ghostscript versions can handle TrueType fonts. You still have to know
the font metrics to print. You could also convert the TTF to PS and embed it.
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