Re: Printing glyphs (Was: GNUstep 0.8.5 pre-release)

[Adam Fedor]

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 07:21 PM, Alexander Malmberg wrote:

> Adam Fedor wrote:
> > Also, printing, after a brief spell of barely working, doesn't 
> > anymore.
> > I'll have to figure out how to display glyphs in PostScript now...
>
> Just a quick note about this: I've looked a bit at it, and it seems to
> me that the backend supplying the fonts (eg. -xlib or -art) and the
> printing "backend" (GSStreamContext) are going to have to talk a lot
> with each other while printing. 'glyphshow' should be able to handle
> this, and I know I can get back-art to provide postscript font and 
> glyph
> names (for printable fonts, anyway).

Yes. The part I'm stuck on is how to get glyph names. Can you tell me 
how to do that in back-art at least?

glyphshow is a good start, although it will probably be more efficient 
eventually to just make a new encoding vector for the font.