Commit(HEAD) qnx getCoverage func.

From: phearbear (phearbear@home.se)
Date: Wed Jun 19 2002 - 13:39:22 EDT

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    Joaquín Cuenca Abela wrote:

    >Latest and greatest Xft patch.
    >
    >It sports on the fly transformation of truetype fonts to type 42 (using
    >previous Tomas work), if you choose to embed them in your postscript
    >files. It will only put in the postscript file the truetype fonts used
    >in the document (of course). It doesn't does subsetting, so you have to
    >pay for the whole font even if you only use a few characters.
    >
    >That means that for a typical document, you will have something and
    >overhead of ~3M in fonts.
    >
    >If that scares you, configure ghostscript to use your truetype fonts,
    >and don't select the "Embed fonts" in the print dialog box. Your .ps
    >files will be ~4k again.
    >
    >The good news:
    >
    ><help_file>
    > Installation of a truetype font (if you have fontconfig installed)
    > -------------------------------
    >
    > Unzip it and copy it in your /usr/share/fonts. Done.
    ></help_file>
    >
    >I've not tested type 1 fonts in a while, so maybe I've broken something
    >there (I don't think so, but who knows...). I will test them asap.
    >
    >Also the insert dialog box now does The Right Thing[TM], but that means
    >that we need a little bit of platform specific cody (to pass from a
    >glyph index to unicode code point). I've done the unix part, and I will
    >do the windows part, but somebody else will have to do the
    >BeOS/QNX/MacOS parts.
    >
    >Please, try the patch. If something weird happens (you don't see
    >anything on screen, for instance :) that will mean that I've screwed a
    >bit or two. Report any problems to me, and I will try to fix them asap.
    >
    >Btw, you will need latest fontconfig/Xft2 stuff. You can get it at
    >http://keithp.com/fonts. Owen has done rpm packages from these
    >snapshots, but I don't remember the link.
    >
    >Cheers,
    >
    >
    >
    Added this in HEAD. it's untested as the symbol code updates arn't in
    HEAD yet (or stable..?)

    /Johan

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