Re: Wrapping TTF files ?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > On the fontforge discussion list George has already been asked to
> > provide such libraries, but this doesn't have top priority, AFAIK.
> > You might push him again.
> 
> Hmm. And suppose that we asked, and he agreed, how long would it
> take before we have a working, installable font library? The problem
> is that lily 2.6 will be released in a few months, and by that time,
> we have to have a solution for the TTF problem.

I can't give an estimate.  George is coding extremely fast, but I
don't follow the source files of fontforge to comment on how easy it
is to create such libraries.

> For the short-term, I guess that the best method is to declare our
> .PS unsuitable for public consumption (perhaps we should call it
> .LPS), and always have GS convert it to PDF.

Exactly.

> On a related note, do you know a way of converting EPS files to PNG
> in batch?

No, sorry.  Even the alternative `convert' program (from ImageMagick)
accepts a single input file only.


    Werner