From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 23:30:08 EDT
--- Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com> wrote:
> At 1:16 PM -0700 4/30/02, Paul Rohr wrote:
> >Uh, is anyone thinking that AbiWord's printed
> output is going to consist of
> >a bunch of bitmaps of rendered glyphs that we
> download to the printer?
>
> No, I don't believe that anyone is thinking about
> that. We
> know that we need to get the font metric (and other
> data) from the
> fonts themselves (though via the FT API's instead of
> having to parse
> the formats ourselves!!!) and include that in the
> appropriate forms
> into the PS.
>
>
> >Is that *ever* a good idea? When? Why?
>
> It's never a good idea to use rasters - however,
> there are
> times where it is acceptable, though none that AW
> should have to deal
> with.
>
>
> >Wherever possible, don't we want to tell the
> printer to use fonts to render
> >specific codepoints?
>
> Yup!
>
>
> >Even if that means precisely positioning the
> various
> >combining characters to form a more complex glyph?
> >
>
> Handling of composite glyphs in PS is interesting,
> and I
> don't know it would be handled - or if it's even a
> special case...
I imagine (and hope) that FreeType can do this.
Maybe with the help of Pango telling FreeType what
to do.
Andrew Dunbar.
> Leonard
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