Re: [m17n] japanese fonts in firefox revisited

11 Mar 2005

      --- Mike FABIAN  wrote:
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"Mike Shegedin" 
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This time, I'm guessing that font embedding is
enabled
-- that is, FF is embedding the fonts into the ps
file
when printing because GS doesn't complain about
missing fonts.
Check whether Firefox is embedding fonts with:
mike@kibou:~$ grep -i beginresource mozilla.ps 
%%BeginResource: CMap IPAPMincho.Regular.0.0_cmap
%%BeginResource: CIDFont IPAPMincho.Regular.0.0
%%BeginResource: CMap IPAPGothic.Regular.0.0_cmap
%%BeginResource: CIDFont IPAPGothic.Regular.0.0
mike@kibou:~$
If it is embedding fonts, you should find lines
beginning with
"%%BeginResource" which also contain the name of the
font which was
embedded.
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I'm curious to know what turns font embedding on
and
off when printing from FF.
Type
about:config
into the URL entry widget of Firefox. You see a long
list of
configuration options.  Enter "printing" into the
"Filter" entry
widget.
You will see an option
font.FreeType2.printing
which may be false or true.
If you set it to true, Firefox will usually embed
fonts when printing,
if you set it to false, it will usually not embed
fonts when printing.
Usually because it may depend on how your Firefox
was compiled.
I attempted changing this parameter and there is no
change on the output. I first tried it on an English
version of FF1.0.1 and then a Japanse version of 1.0.
Both behave exactly the same. They load the Nimbus
fonts but there is no reference or seemingly any
attempt at loading japanese fonts.
...
...
While I'm at it, do qtconfig settings have any
bearing
on any of this?
qtconfig has nothing to do with Firefox because
Firefox is not a Qt
application.
Thanks for clearing this point up. One less thing for
me to futz with.
...
...
The ps file currently being generated has lots of
Numbus fonts which clearly are not Japanese fonts.
That's OK because the page you are trying to print
most likely also contains some Latin glyphs.
...
BTW I have wrappers generated for all of my
installed
Japanese fonts, so I think that as long as GS had
a
file with Japanese text and refered to a Japanese
font
then I would be in business.
To use that possibility, you can set
font.FreeType2.printing
to false.
As I said earlier, I tried this and it had no change
on the output. The resulting ps file is the same size
regardless of the value. (I wonder if I should be
doing something to make the setting have an affect.)

Any other ideas, Mike?

Mike

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