Re: suggestions & observations

Drazen Kacar (dave@srce.hr)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:04:13 +0200


Shaw Terwilliger wrote:

> Yes, the PostScript output actually includes the font used for
> display for 100% (well, really really darn close) WYSIWYG as
> far as fonts go. Adding an option to not embed a font in the
> output is simple enough, but it brings up the problem of font
> matching. If I'm using "Nimbus Roman 9", which looks like a
> Times font, and I print to use printer fonts, how do I match
> this font to something the printer has? We currently don't
> handle this problem for screen->printer fonts on Unix.
>
> If anyone has a good idea or a pointer to some project which
> does this well, please tell. About all we can do now is
> either (1) always use Times or (2) throw the names of the
> fonts we're using at the printer and just hope it can match
> some of them.

http://www.penguincomputing.com/prtools/npadmin.html

It's under GPL, but the web page doesn't have font list under npadmin
features. However, the author will probably know if this can be
implemented or not.

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