here is the latest post to CUPS' newsgroup.
but first i have a question, is there going to be an external CUPS project ? i dont have any place to store the patches and converted fonts, so please let me know if there will be a place for CUPS on cvs, or should i just use minibidi's folder on CVS ???
btw, we are very close :)) i resolved a few font issues, and did a test with minibidi and things seem to be working fine, i would expect an official patch soon (ISA) in the next few days....
btw, this is really me, not the sicko spoof kid, note the punctuation ;-)
ak.
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"Michael Sweet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make sure you end up with an ASCII (pfa) font file; the text filter only supports ASCII encoding.
well, after a while i found out that Type-1 fonts only support up to 256 glyphs, the rest would just have names.
Type1 fonts can contain any number of glyphs. The default encoding is typically only an 8-bit one, however CUPS doesn't use the default encoding at all.
... regarding the font, the Khotot project only has bdf fonts, i'll look for a converter from BDF to TTF or BDF to PFA, or do you know any ??
BDF fonts only contain bitmaps, so they aren't suitable for use as printer fonts.
i also find that 1.2.x crashes, so i had problems with the ppd pointer not being filled by cupsGetPPD() <-- or something similar
Please file a STR:
http://www.cups.org/str.php
the CHARSET env variable was not set on my Fedora. so i suggest getting the charset from the LANG env variable if CHARSET is null.
CHARSET is always set when run from the scheduler; for your own testing from the command-line, make sure to set it.
with bidi being integrated into CUPS, will the rtol parameter in the charsets/utf-8 file be necessary ? its best to set it to ltor while Bidi is being done.
We'll probably want to have a single font map file which maps Unicode ranges to font names, which can be used when figuring out which fonts are required.
to sum up, i need your opinion on the following, so i can go ahead with the patch... - include psglyphs in the patch.
Please do, although we'll need to see the differences for sure to make sure they match up with Adobe's spec; if not, the fonts will need to be fixed.
- utf-8 file's rtol param would be ltor when bidi is done.
This is going away, so you can change it in the interim but it will not be an issue in the future.
- using LANG for charset if CHARSET is not set.
No, CHARSET is set by the scheduler and MUST be set if you are doing any testing.
- arabic presentation form-b, used for shaping. put that in a different font
?
i.e 1 font for 0x0600 and 1 for 0xFE70 ?
Make one font with all glyphs, then reference for both places.
- shaping/bidi would be done on Page[line][i].ch in the 0x0a case of the
switch(getutf8()). is that OK?
Works for me.
- bdf font converter ? or look for other GPL TTF ?
We'll need an outline font; bitmaps don't do us any good (unless you like text that looks like it was printed on a dot-matrix printer...
-- ______________________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike at easysw dot com Printing Software for UNIX http://www.easysw.com
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