Re: AbiWord's printing architecture

From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 19:04:06 EST

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    > Well, we do :-) I just tell the FreeType backend
    > of Pango to produce outlines of the rendered
    > text and write these to the PS file. I have
    > to work on scaling, but the text is there
    > including CJK without having to embed 7.5Mb
    > fonts in the PS file.

    The trick you need to do is called font subsetting.
    Most PS and PDF reference manuals will tell you how to
    do this.

    We don't use Pango for layouts, so we don't use it to
    print either.

    But if what you have works, leave it alone :)

    Dom

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