Sergey Babkin wrote on 2001-12-21 01:41 UTC: > > > It would be good if it also could provide the output in PostScript. > > > > It would be capable of generating outlines. Converting them to PostScript > > is trivial. > > I think, not quite trivial. I guess I should first explain that > I don't want to sound ungrateful, and the way it is now this > architecture looks very interesting and useful. Just it seems to me > that it's a great opportunity to fix the historical X's weakness > with printing. And seeing it missed once again would be a pity. > > Basically, rendering the general graphics in PostScript is easy > and does not require much effort. Rendering of the text is much > harder. The major thing making it complicated is the fonts. Of > course, transferring the outlines of a rendered page back is a > possible thing but it means large size of the resulting file and > slow rendering to bitmaps at the printer.
Also print rendering is today not only done for direct transfer of text to paper. There are new important intermediate stages such as for instance PDF, which allow not only printing, but - compact archiving - searching - cut & paste selection To generate high-quality PDF files, applications really need access to the full fonts that the X clients used to display them on the screen, not just ready-rendered page outlines. > Providing a way to convert the used fonts to PostScript fonts, transferring > them to the client and then rendering the pages in terms of these fonts > looks like a much better thing. I agree. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
