Mario, Thanks for putting that eloquently. Perhaps I could have been a little more specific. I actually have a similarly deep understanding of the Role of fonts and print drivers etc.. as you do.
- Fortunately for me I use windows/chrome and so do my clients. - Regardless of Default TiddlyWiki fonts, Both Chrome and FireFox result in the browser inspect as using verdana (Proven with inspect tools). I don't see how to change or influence this. This always ends up in the Print to PDF. - As far as I can see, I am just not happy with Verdana and its crappy scaling or block like lowercase L (And my client hates it), any San-serif may be better. - I have never tried to dial up the use of alternate fonts in a browser (only native applications) and do not know how to get both FireFox and Chrome and ANY of three PDF printers to use a font other than the mysterious Verdana, unless I configure the CSS. - The PDF Files may be sent by email but I am not concerned with file size as its mostly text, just Verdana font. Thanks for your response Tony On Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 9:24:20 PM UTC+11, PMario wrote: > > Hi Tony, > > If printer font settings works well is highly dependent on the OS you use > and which fonts your printer can natively use. If a printer can't handle > the font you use the page will be sent as pixel graphic, which is much > slower. > > Similar things happen if you print to PDF. It depends on the software > settings of your PDF writer, but you should have much more possibilities. > > Depending on your setting, 1 page of pure text can lead to several MByte > of PDF size if it is printed as a bitmap. ... If the font you want to use, > is installed on your system, you can probably set your writer to "include > font" into PDF, which should make the file much smaller and the text search > in PDF should work. Print quality should be better too. > > Some writers can also do "tree shaking > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_shaking>" for characters used in the > text. They will only include font-definitions for characters used. If you > use several different fonts, this can make an additional impact on PDF > size. > > So I think it's important to have a closer look at your complete setup, > instead of changing TW settings alone. > > Including fonts into TW could be seen as a "redistribution" which is bound > to the font-license. So be careful here! That may also be true for > publishing content as PDF. Be sure you know the font licensing, if money is > involved. > > have fun! > mario > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8ceb18d8-1fbe-4448-9fb3-fd48a7f37876%40googlegroups.com.
