From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Sun Jan 26 2003 - 15:32:26 EST
At 12:36 AM +0100 1/25/03, Robert Roebling wrote:
>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.
ARGH!!!
There are two major problems with this approach.
1) The "printer" is no longer able to using the hinting data in the
font to do better quality output on raster devices and/or lower
resolution PS printers.
2) If the user chooses to take the output PS file and convert it to
PDF, then output document will be larger AND will no longer be
searchable :(.
As Dom noted, the correct thing to do is support font
embedding with subsetting.
Leonard
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