Re: What's the prerenderer do?

[Akira TAGOH <tagoh gnome gr jp>]

>>>>> On 04 Mar 2002 16:07:30 -0600,
>>>>> "LC" == Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:

LC> The embedded font is Nimbus-Roman, so on my system, which doesn't have
LC> KochiMincho installed, that file doesn't display correctly.  Can you, using
LC> the newest CVS version of Dia, get portable Japanese PS files?

Hmm, ok. well, CVS dia works fine when I chose correct font
only. if not so, dia show the empty square. exporting png
also works. but it seems that ghostscript can't parse PS and
EPS.

http://www.gnome.gr.jp/~tagoh/dia/dia.eps
http://www.gnome.gr.jp/~tagoh/dia/dia.png
http://www.gnome.gr.jp/~tagoh/dia/dia.ps

LC> I see now that I can't, not quite.  In the Red Book, page 773, it says

LC>     While there is not a standard set of fonts that is required by the
LC>     PostScript language, most PostScript products include software for 13
LC>     standard fonts from the Times, Helvetica, Courier and Symbol families.

LC> Are you saying that most Japanese and Chinese printers (that understand
LC> PostScript) don't have these?  I'm saying that if we can assume any default
LC> fonts, these are them, since they're actually listed in the PS reference
LC> book.

No, I should said 'locale-specific font'. and if we use
downloaded font for those languages and we will implement
the feature which can print out without choosing
locale-specific font like abiword (of course using
downloaded font is different from abiword), can we use those
fonts without download if we use compound font?

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