On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, rigel wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:34:50PM +0800, Cosmos wrote: > > > > I have make a demo for this, using FreeType. > > > > http://www.cis.nctu.edu.tw/~gis88564/test.ps > > That's exactly what I meant. Look your file. It maybe trivia to you, but > it's highly unlikely an average programmer capable of embedding such > thing in his/her application. So I still think providing some API is a better > idea. Type 3 font is occasionally needed for maximum portability. By providing That's great if have such library. But previous discuss is convert a TrueType font into Type3 font. This job is the maintainer's job, not every programmer's job. No matter this job is trivial or non-trivial, that's the maintainer's bussiness. > an API, applications are not limited to only use arphic font. Frankly, arphic > fonts are not enough for publishing purpose and we can not legally convert > and distribute other fonts. But, do we have any other choice? > > With correct configuration, we can use a Type3 as gs provided. > > Within ps file, we can just write as above. > > /KaiSu-Regular findfont 24 scalefont setfont > > 100 440 moveto > > (蚗abcdf韓) show > > Theoretically you can still call it Type3 fonts, but it has defied its own > purpose. Type3 fonts should be embedded into the documentation for the maximum > flexibility. If i have to depend gs to use these fonts, I'd rather use > truetype font directly. Although the font file is type3 format, but the user won't see the font itself is Type3 or Type1. Font just a font. So, don't care font is Type3, Type1 or TrueType. Thinking about a type3 font which can interpret chinese encoding, what will happen? we can use any version gs to see chinese. That's great. right? > BTW, have you compare the size of embedded bitmap and vetorial fonts? My > guess is that the latter is significantly bigger. If that's the case, I'm > not sure the trade off is worth it. In my experiment, a document embedded with chinese bitmap font will be *very very* huge. When we want to print a 24x24 font, we must provide a 96x96 font in document to have a smooth font in paper. So for differ size font, we must have differ size bitmap font. When a document contain a string with big font size, it will be very terrible. I suggest you to embedded a scalable font rather then a bitmap font.
