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[gtk-list] Re: Hershey fonts are now supported!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Roebling)
Tue Nov 3 13:36:26 1998
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 20:28:17 +0100
From: Robert Roebling <roebling@sun2.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
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> > > No offense, but last time I looked at the Hershey fonts, they were
> > >
> > > floated around ideas for putting plug-in font renderer support
> > > into GTK+, and I think that might be the way to go.
> >
> > Hmm. I did not know there was an idea to have a generic font renderer
> > in Gtk. In that case, obviously, there is no reason to include Hershey
> > into the core library. I'll make it add on.
> >
> > Speaking of the general renderer... What is not really clear
> > whether this general renderer will completely
I have a more general question regarding fonts: How would
I print them? The free GhostScript can handle PostScript,
the non-free can handle TrueType as well. So currently
I use PostScript and the Adobe's font metric table to get
the same font representation on screen as on a printer. Any
smarter way than that available or planned?
The X printing extension are a theory and GNOME offers
printing for its canvas widget only (is that still correct?).
There should be a common way for all applications to
print without its authors having to learn PostScript.
Robert
[Of course wxWindows offers built-in postscript printing,
using the same interface as drawing into a window or a
bitmap :-) ]
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