At 12:36 AM +0100 1/25/03, Robert Roebling wrote:
ARGH!!!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.
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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