Phil,
According to the following:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4291377.html
rasterization of Fonts is fixed in the merlin-beta build. Is there any
public information on when this beta will be released for evaluation?
Thanks,
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Race" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [JAVA2D] Embedding Fonts in Postscript
> whilst its still an unfulfilled goal to have a clean "printer driver
layer"
> for either developers generating printer code from graphics calls, or
> for licensees porting, its not correct to assume that this means
everything
> is rasterised.
>
> this could happen in 1.2 but 1.3 fixed the majority of such cases as well
> as improving text to use printer fonts.
> So you should almost always get "PDL" output.
> You shouldn't get a raster from text on any of the platforms unless you
> do something like drawing using an alpha colour where we do still use a
> raster internally.
>
> start with an minimal text-only case and see if you really are seeing
> a raster and work up from there to see what's tickling it.
>
> that web page pre-dated the shipping of 1.3 and ought to be updated.
> I'll mention this to our web/docs group.
>
> -phil.
>
> > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:02:00 -0400
> > From: "Jim O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: [JAVA2D] Embedding Fonts in Postscript
> > To: Phil Race <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Thanks for the reply, Phil. Some comments/additional questions are below
> >
> > > I'm not sure how you'd expect to see such a capability exposed in the
> > > APIs we have in current releases. It would seem to imply you are
> > > in control of the process of generating postscript and so are
> > > mapping the fonts used in graphics calls on a printer graphics
> > > to this font you've embedded.
> >
> > I found the following SDK 1.2 Printing API reference at
> > http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/2D/forDevelopers/sdk12print.html
> >
> > "..., the initial implementation focused upon the creation of a raster
print
> > path and the creation of the new printing API itself. ... The current
> > implementation of the SDK 1.2 Printing API does not support a printer
driver
> > layer (see Figure 2). Each SDK 1.2 port re-implements the imaging to the
> > printer translation layer. "
> >
> > I think that this means that the Printing API rasterizes everything
before
> > sending it to the printer ? I'm using the JDK1.3.1 beta and this appears
to
> > still be the case. Do you know of any plans to change this behavior ?
Are
> > there any workarounds ?
> >
> > As for the carrot, I think that it will add a lot of flexibility,
however, I
> > think it would also be useful to be able to use "brute force" to let an
> > installed printer driver generate the postscript instead.
> >
> > Thanks again for the reply,
> > Jim
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Phil Race" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 5:19 PM
> > Subject: Re: [JAVA2D] Embedding Fonts in Postscript
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > Sorry, no there isn't, other than what the driver may do for you.
> > > I'm not sure how you'd expect to see such a capability exposed in the
> > > APIs we have in current releases. It would seem to imply you are
> > > in control of the process of generating postscript and so are
> > > mapping the fonts used in graphics calls on a printer graphics
> > > to this font you've embedded.
> > > One carrot I can offer is that the next JDK release will provide
> > > a mechanism for printing document types such as postscript explicitly.
> > > So you could generate your own postscript and print that when a
> > > postscript capable printer is detected.
> > >
> > > -phil.
> > >
> > > > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:55:09 -0700
> > > > From: "Jim O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Subject: [JAVA2D] Embedding Fonts in Postscript
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Is there any way to use the Print APIs to embed fonts when printing
to a
> > > postscript driver ?
> > > >
> > > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Jim
> > > > -------
> > > > Jim O'Neill
> > > > Ducat Commerce, LLC
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >
> > > >
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