Re: [Freetype] Printing (PostScript)

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 12:06 PM 12/14/2001 -0800, Thomas Hudson wrote:

> What we do is extract the glyph outlines and write them as filled paths.
> Have a look at FT_Outline_Decompose.

        PLEASE DON'T DO THIS!!!

        When you convert from fonts to outlines, you are losing all the 
important information (ie. HINTING!) that can be used by printers or on 
screen viewers (Ghostscript, Acrobat, etc.).

        The correct way to do it is to copy some (or all) of the font data 
into the PS/PDF file as part of the appropriate dictionaries.  You can find 
code for this in a number of open source projects including AbiWord and PDFTeX.


Leonard