Re: japanese fonts in firefox revisited

--- Mike FABIAN <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Mike Shegedin" <[email protected]>
> ¤µ¤ó¤Ï½ñ¤­¤Þ¤·¤¿:
> 
> > This time, I'm guessing that font embedding is
> enabled
> > -- that is, FF is embedding the fonts into the ps
> file
> > when printing because GS doesn't complain about
> > missing fonts.
> 
> Check whether Firefox is embedding fonts with:
> 
> mike@kibou:~$ grep -i beginresource mozilla.ps 
> %%BeginResource: CMap IPAPMincho.Regular.0.0_cmap
> %%BeginResource: CIDFont IPAPMincho.Regular.0.0
> %%BeginResource: CMap IPAPGothic.Regular.0.0_cmap
> %%BeginResource: CIDFont IPAPGothic.Regular.0.0
> mike@kibou:~$ 
> 
> If it is embedding fonts, you should find lines
> beginning with
> "%%BeginResource" which also contain the name of the
> font which was
> embedded.
> 
> > I'm curious to know what turns font embedding on
> and
> > off when printing from FF.
> 
> Type
> 
>     about:config
> 
> into the URL entry widget of Firefox. You see a long
> list of
> configuration options.  Enter "printing" into the
> "Filter" entry
> widget.
> 
> You will see an option
> 
>     font.FreeType2.printing 
> 
> which may be false or true.
> 
> If you set it to true, Firefox will usually embed
> fonts when printing,
> if you set it to false, it will usually not embed
> fonts when printing.
> 
> Usually because it may depend on how your Firefox
> was compiled.


I attempted changing this parameter and there is no
change on the output. I first tried it on an English
version of FF1.0.1 and then a Japanse version of 1.0.
Both behave exactly the same. They load the Nimbus
fonts but there is no reference or seemingly any
attempt at loading japanese fonts.

> 
> > While I'm at it, do qtconfig settings have any
> bearing
> > on any of this?
> 
> qtconfig has nothing to do with Firefox because
> Firefox is not a Qt
> application.

Thanks for clearing this point up. One less thing for
me to futz with.

> > The ps file currently being generated has lots of
> > Numbus fonts which clearly are not Japanese fonts.
> 
> That's OK because the page you are trying to print
> most likely also contains some Latin glyphs.
> 
> > BTW I have wrappers generated for all of my
> installed
> > Japanese fonts, so I think that as long as GS had
> a
> > file with Japanese text and refered to a Japanese
> font
> > then I would be in business.
> 
> To use that possibility, you can set
> 
>     font.FreeType2.printing
> 
> to false.

As I said earlier, I tried this and it had no change
on the output. The resulting ps file is the same size
regardless of the value. (I wonder if I should be
doing something to make the setting have an affect.)

Any other ideas, Mike?

Mike



		
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