On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > 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
> 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? Have you looked at Gaspar's uniprint that comes with his yudit (Unicode editor)? It works wonderfully for the job you described (no fancy printing features, but it saved me a few days in the past when I have to print out some non-Western-European and non-Korean documents) It's using freetype to make use of TT fonts in generating PS output. He's on this list so that he might share his thoughts with you. > 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. For Japanese users, I heard often times PS printers have Japanese fonts installed. However, it's very rare that Korean PS/CID fonts come preinstalled with a PS printer (there are some from Lexmark and HP, but I've never used/seen one). Moreover, nowadays most 'budget-minded' Linux users don't have a PS printer, do they? (although I still prefer to a real PS printer). Therefore, permanently downloading PS/CID fonts to a printer's harddisk/flash memory/etc is not an option for most users. Most of them use gs or other printer-filters to print PS files. Then, you may ask why your program has to embed PS/CID fonts because gs and other filters will provided them if those fonts are installed on users' hard disk and configured correctly to be used by gs and other filters. Well, sometimes you may want to make PS or PDF as portable and stand-alone as possible. Therefore, being able to embed fonts would be a nice option although not a must. BTW, I think this is also the case of Chinese users and many Japanese users (although not all). Hope this helps you, Jungshik -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
