Re: Japanese printing in Firefox

--- Mike FABIAN <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mike Shegedin <[email protected]>
> ¤µ¤ó¤Ï½ñ¤­¤Þ¤·¤¿:
> 
> > Hey, Mike. I printed the Japanese google homepage
> to a
> > file and passed it to gs as you stated. GS
> diplayed
> > boxes just like it did when they were printed out.
> > Standard output gave me lots of the following:
> > --------------------
> > Scanning /usr/share/fonts/ for fonts... 0 files, 0
> > scanned, 0 new fonts.
> > Can't find (or can't open) font file
> > /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/Font/Ryumin
> > -Light-EUC-H.
> > Can't find (or can't open) font file
> > Ryumin-Light-EUC-H.
> > Substituting font Courier for Ryumin-Light-EUC-H.
> > ---------------------
> 
> That means your firefox/Mozilla is setup not to use
> font embedding but
> to write requests for the printer resident font
> Ryumin-Light into the
> PostScript output.
> 
> And somehow your Ghostscript doesn't support that
> font.  That means
> something is wrong with your ghostscript-cjk.  If
> ghostscript-cjk
> worked correctly, you would get readable Japanese,
> the PostScript file
> produced by firefox/Mozilla is probably OK.
> 
> We'll find out ...
> 
> > I also did the grep command you gave me on the
> output
> > file. I got no output from the grep it whatsoever.
> 
> That confirms that firefox/Mozilla did not embed CJK
> fonts into the
> PostScript output.
> 
> > I'm curious about the font embedding you
> mentioned.
> > Did you mean that GS will either attempt to embed
> a
> > font into a ps document before it is rendered or
> will
> > attempt to either load the requested font or make
> a
> > substitution when the font is not available to GS?
> Is
> > this the primary function of ghostscript-cjk?
> 
> No, I meant that Mozilla will embed the Japanese
> fonts into the
> PostScript.  In that case, Ghostscript will not need
> to support
> Japanese fonts at all because all the fonts are
> already in the
> PostScript.
> 
> It is possible to setup Mozilla that way and in the
> long run it is
> much better than to use the printer resident fonts. 
> Because when
> fontembedding is used correctly, this will give you
> PostScript files
> which will use exactly the same fonts as you saw on
> the screen. When
> using the printer resident fonts, you will only see
> one font
> (Ryumin-Light) in the printout, even if several
> different fonts were
> used on the screen. And you could copy such
> PostScript files to any
> computer and print on any printer without the need
> of Japanese font
> support in Ghostscript or the printer.  I.e. for the
> future, this is
> the way to go and I hope this will already work
> correctly in SuSE 9.3.
> 
> But until very recently, the fontembedding code was
> still very broken
> in Mozilla, i.e. you could just as well use the
> printer resident
> fonts.
> 
> Let's try to find out what is wrong with your
> ghostscript-cjk.  You
> may need that anyway to print some Japanese
> PostScript files which
> don't have fonts embedded, not only because of
> Mozilla.
> 
> Did
> 
>     SuSEconfig --module ghostscript-cjk
> 
> create the wrapper 
> 
>    
> /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/CIDFont/Ryumin-Light
> 
> for you? If yes, what is in there? Should look like
> this:
> 
>     mike@nozomi:/usr/share/ghostscript/Resource$ cat
> CIDFont/Ryumin-Light
>     %!PS-Adobe-3.0 Resource-CIDFont
>     %%Creator: aliascid.ps by Taiji Yamada
> <[email protected]> and gs-cjk project
>     %%BeginResource: CIDFont (Ryumin-Light)
>     (Ryumin-Light)
>     (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/HGJMLBMP.TTC)
> .openttcidfont
>     /CIDFont defineresource pop
>     %%EndResource
>     %%EOF
>     mike@nozomi:/usr/share/ghostscript/Resource$
> 
> Only in your case it should be a different font. 
> HGJMLBMP.TTC is from
> the Novell-ricoh-fonts package which is only
> included in the version
> of SuSE 9.3 sold in Japan. The script
> /usr/sbin/ghostscript-cjk-config
> will try to insert the "best" installed Japanese
> Mincho style font
> there, to see the order in which fonts are preferred
> you
> can look into /usr/sbin/ghostscript-cjk-config where
> you will find:
> 
>     # install wrappers for standard PostScript
> names:
> 
>     install_ps_name ("alias-aj1.sh", "Ryumin-Light",
>                      "hgmlsun.ttf",
>                      "msmincho.ttc",
>                      "HGJMLBMP.TTC",
>                      "ricoh-mincho.ttc",
>                      "ipamp.ttf",
>                      "sazanami-mincho.ttf",
>                      "kochi-mincho.ttf",
>                      "kochi-mincho-subst.ttf");
> 
> The topmost font from this list which exists on your
> system will be used. In your case this is probably
> 
>    
>
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/sazanami-mincho.ttf
> 
> Is everything correct until here?
> 
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You said:
--------------------
> Did SuSEconfig --module ghostscript-cjk
> create the wrapper 
> /usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/CIDFont/Ryumin-Light
> for you? If yes, what is in there? Should look like
-------------------
Mike, no, I don't have a wrapper for Ryumin-Light in
that directory. All that is there is:
.  ..  WadaGo-Bold  WadaMaruGo-Regular  WadaMin-Bold 
WadaMin-Regular

I did check for the wrapper you suggested and the
closest thing I could find was:
./usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/psprint/fontmetric/Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H.afm
./usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/psprint/fontmetric/Ryumin-Light.Roman.afm

which seem to have something to do with OpenOffice.

I double checked that ghostscript-cjk was in fact
installed and performed SuSEconfig --module
ghostscript-cjk again with no new results.

So why wasn't the wrapper installed? My rpm of
ghostscript-cjk would appear to be one made for
SuSE9.1 while I'm running 9.2. Make a difference?

The instructions you gave about getting into the
wrapper seen to be beyond what I can do at this point
in the game until we get the Ryumin-Light wrapper
resolved. What do you suggest, Mike?

BTW, you mentioned:
> you
> can look into /usr/sbin/ghostscript-cjk-config where
> you will find:

My system does not have "ghostscript-cjk-config"
anywhere. Hmm. Bad rpm? In case this is a possibility,
where do you recommend I go to get good rpms for SuSE?

Mike



	
		
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