Re: XP PS printing (was Re: unix font handling)

[Vlad Harchev]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:

> At 12:04 AM +0400 1/31/01, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> >  I think that XP PS export is not worth the efforts
> 
>       As the person who originally suggested it, it IS worth the 
> effort if you look at it as a bridge to "smart PDF documents".  By 
> generating our own Postscript (on ANY platform) we can incorporate 
> PDFMarks - PS extensions that allow one to specify PDF features to 
> Distiller/Ghostscript.

 Yes, this is the only thing XP PS is useful for. But if we want XP PS we
will need to use FreeType or similar to query glyph dimensions XP.

> 
> >  Also, it still would be nice to make AW full supporting TTFs (even with
> >non-unicode ttf fonts).
> >
>       Agreed.   I believe the latest version of pdfTeX now supports 
> TTFs and properly writing them out to PS and PDF, so that's probably 
> a good place to look.

 Nice hint!

> 
> Leonard
> -- 

 Best regards,
  -Vlad