Re: CFF font in PostScript for HP printers

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> Actually, I can't remember for sure anymore.  Werner?
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Toftdal <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:26 PM
> Subject: CFF font in PostScript for HP printers
> To: address@hidden
>
>
> Han-Wen,
>
> I found some of your comments various places on OpenType fonts in
> PostScript. I've also looked a bit at the Lilypond source, and it
> seems very similar some PostScript generation that I am working on. I
> extract the CFF table of an OpenType font and wrap that in a bit of
> PostScript as described in the CFF specification and the PostScript
> language reference. This all looks nice in Ghostview, Acrobat
> distiller handles it and it prints on a Ricoh printer that I have
> access to. However, I cannot make it work on any HP PS printers.
> I don't think the problem is the binary data. It seems that the HP
> printers don't know about the FontSet resource category:
> Sending
>  /CFFTestFont /FontSet resourcestatus { ( found ) show} { ( not
> found) show} ifelse
> gives an undefined error from resourcestatus (which according to the
> PS reference means that the category is unknown). This is consistent
> with the output I get if I send
>  (*) {0 currentpoint pop sub 60 add -6  rmoveto show} 256 string
> /Category resourceforall
> to the printers. They know about CMap and CIDFont resource categories
> but not FontSet.
>
> So my question is, have you had any problems with sending the Lilypond
> PostScript to HP printers?
>
> Kind regards,
> -Michael
>
>
>
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> Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
>



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