[cgreek:00309] Re: cgreek21

[TAKAHASHI Naoto <ntakahas@xxxxxxxx>]

Alexej Kryukov writes:

> "Unicode font in the Type1 format" means a font which is marked as
> having the Adobe Standard encoding but really contains hundreds of
> glyphs? I know at least one such font which contains Polytonic
> Greek: Kerkis, maintained by Antonios Tsolomitis. 

Sorry, forget about the Type1 fonts.  I thought ps-print can handle
Type1, but it cannot yet.

> But, AFAIU, ghostscript can handle Unicode TrueType fonts as well.

The problem occurs *before* ghostscript is invoked.  ps-print converts
the content of a buffer into postscript; then ghostscript converts the
generated postscript into another format, if necessary.  When ps-print
cannot generate a postscript file, ghostscript is of no help.

>> or a big Unicode font in the BDF format, I can add
>> printing support.  Creating a big BDF font is not difficult, but
>> requires some patience.  Are there any volunteers?

> But of course there are several! For example, virtually all
> Linux distributions contain the -misc-fixed font, which has
> all necessary glyphs in some of its sizes. Usually the
> compiled (pcf) version is used, but there is no problem to obtain 
> the bdf sources too.

I meant *big* fonts.  As you have already experienced with CGreek20, a
24-pixel font results in an unsatisfactory quality when printed with
ps-print.  At least 36-pixel or so is desired, preferably 48-pixel.

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