Well, so there is no simple solution :-(
I could probably add a method like getConfiguredFonts in the font server to put
in the postscript file all of the fonts defined in the config file. But that
really sounds dirty to me.
A temporary solution (before implementing a two-pass approach) would be to only
support Base14 fonts; BTW, are these fonts well defined in the postscript
standard? Or do they only exist in PDF?
And a somewhat related question: how does font embedding work in postscript? I
believe that it is like in PDF: embedding is not mandatory, one can simply put
the font name in the file, and this will work if the corresponding font is
installed on the client system. So this should almost always work for the fonts
corresponding to the PDF Base14, and not always for others. Is there a
font-naming convention?
So, depending on the answers to the preceding questions: what do we choose?
Systematic font embedding or only putting the font name?
Thanks,
Vincent
Jeremias Maerki a écrit :
I know exactly what you mean. The only way around this is to do a
two-pass approach when writing PostScript, meaning that you keep track
of resources (like fonts) while writing the pages and later you put
together the complete PostScript document by including the needed
resources in the right places. Obviously, that means loosing a lot of
processing speed. PDF is in a better position because it's a
random-access file format while PS is streaming. We can add the font
objects to the PDF after we've already used them. On the other side, the
PDF generated this way cannot be not a linearized file which allows
"Fast Web View". The browser always has to load the whole PDF file to
display it because the cross-reference table is at the end of the file.
So, even PDF has, in a way, the same problem.
So you see: the problem is speed versus beauty.
BTW, that was the reason why I started introducing a better resource
handling with PS support, so we can later add such a mode where we write
the PS file in a two-pass approach.
On 12.09.2005 21:40:11 Vincent Hennebert wrote:
In PSDocumentGraphics2D.writeFileHeader (and also in
PSRenderer.startPageSequence) the font dictionary is written into the PS file by
a call to PSFontUtil.writeFontDict.
At this time all of the fonts present in the fontInfo (defaults + those found in
the config file) seem to be written out, even those that won't be used in the fo
file.
I'm a bit worried because I can't reproduce that easily with FOrayFont. All I
can get is the set of fonts that were used within the document. I guess that
rendering starts as soon as possible and that at the time when the file header
is written out the whole document may not have been entirely parsed yet? (but
the PDFRenderer only stores used fonts by making a call to
FontInfo.getUsedFonts!? This also is the case in PSRenderer.stopRenderer).
So the question is: is there a mean to only put used fonts when writing out a PS
font dictionary? This would be cleaner anyway.
I hope I'm clear.
Vincent
Jeremias Maerki
