anyone can test a new freetype printing module on a postscript level 1 printer?
Jungshik Shin <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix |
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| Organization | Another Netscape Collabra Server User |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi,
I've been working on bug 234182
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234182) to increase the
portability of Mozilla's postscript output. There are three different
printing modules. One of them is freetype printing. When built with Xft,
it can produce a very faithful replica of the screen rendering. However,
it suffers from the low portability because it contains type 9 fonts
(CID-keyed fonts with type 1 outlines) that can be supported only by
postscript level 3 printers. Bug 234182 is about replacing type 9 fonts
with multiple type 1 fonts. I reached the goal, but I need to verify
that it works fine on actual PS level 1 printers. I've already tested my
patch with a PS level 2 printer and a PS level 3 printer.
I put up several ps files at
http://i18nl10n.com/mozilla/234182.test_set.tar.bz2 (includes
several PS files)
http://i18nl10n.com/mozilla/utf8sample.p10.ps.bz2 (the ps output of
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html : about 10 pages)
It'd be nice if those with PS level 1 printers can print them with your
printer and let me know the result. Some of them amy not be printable on
a PS level 1 printer NOT because a bug I introduced BUT because a 'bug'
(yet not identified) that has been with Mozilla printing code. The PS
output of UTF8 sampler should be printed fine on most, if not all, PS
level 1 printers.
Thanks a lot,
Jungshik