Subject: Re: ttf fonts status
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Feb 17 2001 - 03:25:23 CST
Hi Tomas,
I just wanted to let you know that I think this stuff you're doing
with ttf fonts is fantastic. It's one of the most frequent requests we get
from gtk/gnome users.
I'm sure the gnome-print guys would love this stuff too.
Keep up the great work!
Martin
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
> > Sounds like this means that TrueType and Type 1 fonts now have equal status
> > in the Linux versions of AbiWord. That's awesome! :-)
> No entirely; the ttf printing only works with Ghostcript at the
> moment; it will not work on a genuine PS printer, because the ttf
> fonts do not get embeded into the PS output. To do that we need
> to generate PS Type 42 font from the ttf font, we then embed the
> Type 42 font. I am looking into it, there should be some programme
> around that does the conversion (Type 42 is just kind of a PS
> wrapper around the raw ttf font).
>
> > Just for grins, I'd like to ask the obvious followup question -- is there
> > any reasonable way to automate the creation of fonts.dir entries, too? It'd
> > be too cool if the process for installing new fonts was this simple:
> >
> > 1. Drop it (or a symlink) in the fonts directory.
> > 2. Relaunch AbiWord.
> > 3. Your new font Just Works.
> >
> That should be possible, but we would have to run mkfontdir and
> some support programmes every time we launch AW; I am bit
> reluctant to go in this direction, because it means doing things
> behind people's back and potentially undoing any changes that
> they did by hand. I think it would be better to have something like
> Tools->Install New Font on the AW menu.
>
> What I would like to add first though, is the pfa2afm utility to
> generate afm files from pfa fonts in the same manner we do with ttf
> fonts so that installation of both types of fonts would only involve
> adding the actual font file.
>
> Tomas
>
>
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