-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey Jesse,
Thanks for the advice. I knew Scribus had some really good support for stuff like this. I also checked out: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bangla-PDF-HOWTO/fonts.html There's a plethora of good information on Font Installation there. The more I read about it, the more Type1 makes sense. If you want to do a fair bit of PDF generation than Type1 seems to be the way to go. It appears that it can be done with TrueType but it's flaky. It appears that KOffice apps support Type1 too. I did a little digging. KDE itself has it's own built in Font installer that supports both TrueType and Type1 so I think that's the way to go. I'd like to take a crack at doing through a shell script, that would be too cool! More reading... On Monday 08 March 2004 7:33 pm, Jesse Kline wrote: > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > <snip> > > > I know that X handles font management for your system, or rather XFM or > > XDM handles it, sorry I don't have Linux in front of me so I am writing > > based on memory. Is there anything like Adobe ATM for Linux? The way I > > understand it, unless you have gobs of memory, it's not in your best > > interests to run a boat load of fonts at any given time. Can you turn > > them on and off at a whim like ATM does under Windows? Is if just a > > matter of editing a file or two and restarting the font server or do you > > have to restart X? > > Well, I'm not font expert, but AFAIK if you have Fontconfig installed you > can drop fonts into the ~/.fonts directory and then run: > $ fc-cache ~/.fonts > to load them. You should also be able to unload them by moving them out of > the directory and running the same command. If you are worried about memory > it would be quite simple to write a bash script that would load and unload > groups of fonts for you. > > > How is printing handled depending on which format you use? It appears > > that Ghostscript handles some or all of this. How does that work in > > relation to CUPS? I guess it depends on which printer driver you are > > using that dictates what you are able to print from whichever > > application. > > I'm no printing expert either :-) but I don't think it matters what print > spooler you are using. I think gs will convert a file to ps and then send > it to the spooler to send to the printer. > > This page may give you more info. on these topics: > http://home.comcast.net/~scribusdocs/optimizelinuxdtp1.html > > Hope that helps some, > > Jesse > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca - -- Jarrod Major GPG Fingerprint: FA4A 1EA3 A0EE A842 07BB 804C 0090 14F6 BE6E DE3D Registered Linux User: #224211 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQE1n4wCQFPa+bt49AQJsnAP+KPnZzeeAyXrl//Pl+mRvfxjnBtHsnnpZ L81Lptn8LratHPe/1ZUmhGaHryrZh1TOkuGOoyX+NHVCyqHb1jl5XPmDcVQjCdBc gyCHFQTpulGvx7r51vtYPgPGDd9SPXnRmGy9vk4GXoxQ8CnM2ElhSmqQ7Tmm+FzD pMblbhPKxrs= =qVOX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
