On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:32:42PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Huw D M Davies wrote: > > > > We've been working quite hard on making improvements to the PostScript > > driver and now have code that should print any character that can be > > displayed on the screen (assuming you're using client side font > > rendering anyway). The code downloads the TT font to the printer as > > either Type 42 (TT wrapped in PostScript) or for older printers the > > font gets converted to a Type 1 outline. > > > > A couple of suggestions/requests: > > 1. A lot of Wine users (the majority?) will be printing to non- > PostScript printers via Ghostscript. In this situation, embedding > the TrueType font in the output is unnecessary, as long as the > user has made Ghostscript aware of the font. Please enable the > user to turn font embedding off.
I'm not sure how to neatly do this. I suppose the user could add the font to the ppd file and the font would then be treated as a builtin font. The cost of download isn't too bad since you only download the glyphs that you use and not the whole font file. > 2. Please don't disable the current (very kludgy) method of printing > TrueType fonts. Client-side font rendering is definitely the way > to go, but it currently causes Wine to crash on my system. Until > client-side rendering stabilizes, I (and others) need to use X- > based fonts but print TrueType fonts. Sounds like we need to fix the bug then. Could you open a bugzilla bug and include a +xrender,+font log? Thanks, Huw. -- Huw Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]