--- Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 1:16 PM -0700 4/30/02, Paul Rohr wrote: > >Uh, is anyone thinking that AbiWord's printed > output is going to consist of > >a bunch of bitmaps of rendered glyphs that we > download to the printer? > > No, I don't believe that anyone is thinking about > that. We > know that we need to get the font metric (and other > data) from the > fonts themselves (though via the FT API's instead of > having to parse > the formats ourselves!!!) and include that in the > appropriate forms > into the PS. > > > >Is that *ever* a good idea? When? Why? > > It's never a good idea to use rasters - however, > there are > times where it is acceptable, though none that AW > should have to deal > with. > > > >Wherever possible, don't we want to tell the > printer to use fonts to render > >specific codepoints? > > Yup! > > > >Even if that means precisely positioning the > various > >combining characters to form a more complex glyph? > > > > Handling of composite glyphs in PS is interesting, > and I > don't know it would be handled - or if it's even a > special case...
I imagine (and hope) that FreeType can do this. Maybe with the help of Pango telling FreeType what to do. Andrew Dunbar. > Leonard > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Leonard Rosenthol > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <http://www.lazerware.com> ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
