The PCL renderer is now more or less operational, including reference-orientation. There are a few details to attend to, like kerning and font support. If anyone does a test drive, I'd love to hear some feedback.
In order to support additional fonts I'd like to implement TrueType support. Since the PCL reference does not contain an example of TrueType embedding, I seek an example PCL file that does TrueType embedding. The problem: On Windows, all printer drivers I checked paint TrueType fonts either as raster graphics or download the fonts as bitmap fonts. If someone on MacOSX or some other Unix could generate a small PCL file in which a TrueType font is used, I'd be very grateful. Maybe one of the unixes may actually have the ability to embed TrueType fonts. But considering my findings, I'm wondering if I should not simply do the same as these Windows printer drivers and simply render the text as raster graphics. The file size remains surprisingly small. I just don't know if it has any negative impact on performance. And I wonder if there's a reason why the TrueType fonts are not embedded. Hmmm. Jeremias Maerki
