Have you looked at Gaspar's uniprint
Had a quick look. It's very different from what I'm planning.
(This is, of course, not to be taken as a criticism of Gaspar's work,
just a statement of different design goals).
Gaspar's program was designed to print text that is ``exotic'' for the
user, i.e. text for which the user does not necessarily have fonts.
I'm planning something that does a decent job when the user does have
the right fonts, and with only minimal fallback mechanisms for when no
installed font contains a suitable glyph.
(I'm not considering automatic generation of composites as a fallback
mechanism; I rather see it as something that an application should be
doing as a matter of course.)
Therefore, being able to embed fonts would be a nice option
although not a must.
Good to know, thanks.
Gaspar Sinai:
The problem with postscritp printing is that fonts are not readily
available.
It's not as bad as it used to be, but it's still a fair assessment.
The solution: convert truetype fonts to postscipt fonts.
Yep. Fortunately, most printers do support Type 42 fonts nowadays.
The initial plan is to allow using BDF fonts as fallbacks. I may
implement Type 42 downloading at a later date, it's really not too
difficult.
The 2.x version of Yudit prints totally differently - it
actually draws the objects one by one, with some cacheing.
As curves or as bitmaps?
Juliusz
P.S. I'm grateful if people keep CC-ing me.
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