Font problems

James Richard Tyrer tyrerj at acm.org
Thu Apr 1 02:44:42 CEST 2004


Carlos Leonhard Woelz wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:22:45 -0300, "Henrique Pinto"
> <henrique.pinto at kdemail.net> said:
> 
>>Em Ter 30 Mar 2004 21:07, James Richard Tyrer escreveu:
>>
>>>The purpose of this is to have it use the correct font names if you do NOT
>>>embed fonts.  If makes no difference if you do [TYPO: My BAD!] embed fonts.
>>
<SNIP>

> The patch is to provide font names in a format that a PostScript
> compliant program can find them. So it only makes sense in a "finding
> fonts" situation, when the fonts are NOT embedded. When the fonts are
> embedded, you don't face this problem. This is an elusive but very common
> problem Qt/KDE programs face (PostScript fonts problems). So thanks, JRT
> for your efforts.
> 
> BTW, JRT, did you send your patch to Craig Drummond? I believe he was
> into this fonts thing...

He replied to the other post so he has the URL.

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JRT


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