Re: Printing with True Type Fonts - a possible solution

[Pierre Abbat]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
>The TeX system converts fonts to embedded bitmap fonts when printing
>through postscript.  Couldn't AbiWord do something similar?  It would
>need  to know the printer resolution and font metrics.  Perhaps the user
>would have to configure the resolution of a printer to make TrueType
>fonts available.

Recent Ghostscript versions can handle TrueType fonts. You still have to know
the font metrics to print. You could also convert the TTF to PS and embed it.