clone 411824 -1 retitle -1 a2ping: embedding all fonts thanks "Daniel Kraft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frank wrote: >> [Heiko] suggested exactly what has been implemented in a2ping, namely >> a generic "--pass-to-gs" option -- he said there are too many useful gs >> options to add to a tool one individual option for each. > > Of course he is right, but in order to use such a generic option one has > to know what to give to it. And because embedding fonts is something > that is probably often needed, and by users that are not gs experts, I > think an extra option is worthwhile. Of course, adding the necessary > --pass-to-gs options to the man page would do as well. I tend to agree - however I also think that we (Debian) should not deviate from upstream here, lest we get epstopdf's upstream maintainers... >> On the other hand, I rather think that embedding fonts should be the >> default. Even in a2ping (plus, it should be documented; it's only in >> the changelog at the bottom of the manpage). > > Yes, documenting --gsextra as well as how to use it to embed fonts would > be fine. a2ping definitely needs better documentation about that, and maybe we can convince Peter to implement a special option for embedding (or just make it the default). Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
