On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Jungshik Shin wrote: > 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.
OK. I won't hide :) The problem with postscritp printing is that fonts are not readily available. The solution: convert truetype fonts to postscipt fonts. The first progarm I know was from Andrew Weeks back in 1997. It converts ttf fonts to postscript fonts. As for Asian fonts it may not work. 1.x version of Yudit included this to embed a poscript font in the output. The 2.x version of Yudit prints totally differently - it actually draws the objects one by one, with some cacheing. There is a very nice program called wprint fill the missing fonts by rewriting truetype fonts. It is different form Yudit in a way that it is in fact rewriting the whole postscript file produced by some application, like netscape, to include the fonts. Yudit: http://www.yudit.org/ WPrint: http://ttt.esperanto.org.uy/programoj/angle/wprint.html There might be many new things - I am not actively following this. I think postscript is a bit neglected, but otherwise great standard. Cheers gaspar -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
