Steve Sheriff wrote:
Hi everyone.
Yep, I agree. No problem but. . . Has anyone managed to get the ttf's printed from a worthwhile application?
Luv from Clara x x x
I did, but not directly. StarOffice displays and prints TrueType (Some of them like Tahoma and TimesNewRoman crash SO very heavily while others like ComicSansMS work fine) Though it's not SO printinng, but ghostscript. SO is using these fonts and Ghostscripts uses the definitions while converting to pcl for my printer. If you like, ghostscript is sort of PS Printer with (almost) infinite fonts and SO knows about these due to - *.afm deffinitions in ../xp3/fontmap/afm - *.pfb files (empty in my case `touch xyz.pfb`) in ../xp3/pssoftfonts - a modified (see setup.pdf) SGENPR.PS (forgot the exact name) printer driver in ../ppds that has additional font entries (The font names were the same as gs's Fontmap font names) The other choice is to convert TTF's to either type1 or type42 and use them for printing. (It looks like that I did just that yesterday by accident when I first announced success) In some ways it's totaly mad, I ended up printing Webdings and Verdana quiet happy when it sould have literally been impossible. When everything should have worked (in theory) it didn't. I do not know wether it's sensible to restart X on these occasions. If it is, than might explain it. After X froze, I had to restart and some time after that - BINGO! I still have to get my notes together and post them. I hope that somebody will be able to reproduce my efforts. I had a short look at WordPerfect as well. It looks like "understanding" Type1 Fonts, but nothing happens if you add a few more and restart xwp. There is no Fontmap file for the type1 fonts. Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\ /__/ / _ / // /\ / / ===========================================__v __/_/_//_/_,_/ /_/_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/