Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela wrote: >Latest and greatest Xft patch. > >It sports on the fly transformation of truetype fonts to type 42 (using >previous Tomas work), if you choose to embed them in your postscript >files. It will only put in the postscript file the truetype fonts used >in the document (of course). It doesn't does subsetting, so you have to >pay for the whole font even if you only use a few characters. > >That means that for a typical document, you will have something and >overhead of ~3M in fonts. > >If that scares you, configure ghostscript to use your truetype fonts, >and don't select the "Embed fonts" in the print dialog box. Your .ps >files will be ~4k again. > >The good news: > ><help_file> > Installation of a truetype font (if you have fontconfig installed) > ------------------------------- > > Unzip it and copy it in your /usr/share/fonts. Done. ></help_file> > >I've not tested type 1 fonts in a while, so maybe I've broken something >there (I don't think so, but who knows...). I will test them asap. > >Also the insert dialog box now does The Right Thing[TM], but that means >that we need a little bit of platform specific cody (to pass from a >glyph index to unicode code point). I've done the unix part, and I will >do the windows part, but somebody else will have to do the >BeOS/QNX/MacOS parts. > QNX Don't use Xft. Or is the stuff with the insert symbol dialog something else?
> >Please, try the patch. If something weird happens (you don't see >anything on screen, for instance :) that will mean that I've screwed a >bit or two. Report any problems to me, and I will try to fix them asap. > >Btw, you will need latest fontconfig/Xft2 stuff. You can get it at >http://keithp.com/fonts. Owen has done rpm packages from these >snapshots, but I don't remember the link. > >Cheers, > > >
