On 2/25/06, Larry Kollar wrote: > > How much work would it be to hook into whatever system-wide printer > drivers there may be?
A lot. > This is something I've been pondering for a > while, and I don't even have a clue how gtroff figures out glyph > widths (is there some communication between gtroff & the > postprocessor?). It would be nice to have access to all the TrueType > and PostScript fonts installed on the system without having to build > metric files and so forth. > > If I were to poke at this, where would I start? I've given a lot of thought to this as well, but I'm not the coder kind ;-) There is already a possible path: fontconfig and freetype2. I wonder if they could be used as backend for a utility that extracted all the metrics information for a truetype font and dumped a properly formed AFM. I know that can be done with freetype1 (as in ttftoafm and ttftot42) but that library is obsolete... _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
