Hello to all,
I've read the recent thread with interest as I have been thinking
about implementing printing of UTF-8 for a while. While I'm rather
busy right now, I'd be very happy to try my hand at a Unicode to
PostScript renderer some time in the future, and I'd be curious to
learn what type of features people would be interested in seeing.
I don't want to start with a2ps, but rather write my own little hack.
This would, of course, mean that there would be none of a2ps'
pretty-printing capabilities; would that be fine?
Of course, for East-Asian users support for CIDFonts is a must. I
would be curious to know whether the usual environment in CJK
countries is to have such fonts permanently downloaded in the printer,
or whether support for including CIDFonts in a print job is a must.
(Side note: I'll have no trouble implementing downloading of Western
TTFs as Type 42, but I'm a little shaky on Type 42 CIDFonts; if you're
familiar with that beast, I may need your help.)
In addition, I'm not willing to invest much time into BIDI (which
requires completely different data structures); do people think that
strict L2R is useful enough?
Finally, would people be willing to use a piece of code that requires
Bruno Haible's CLISP to be installed? Or do you think that exclusive
use of stone-age languages is a must?
Thanks for your comments (which I'd appreciate you to CC to me
directly),
Juliusz
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