Re: [Gnome-print] Installing non standard fonts

[Lauris Kaplinski <lauris ximian com>]

Hello!

On 14 Jun 2001 03:38:25 +0400, Valek Filippov wrote:
> > I would use some TTF to Type1 converter on Arial or Times New Roman 
> > (should be ").
> Lauris, please don't.
> "freely downloadable" is evil.
> At 1st of all ghostscript free URW fonts ALLWAYS HAVE all iso8859-15 glyphs.
> 2nd: No distributor can include "freely downloadable from Microsoft website" fonts to their distro.
> If you are going to test your works with it then what you really will test?
> 
> If you want ttf you can freely convert type1 by pfaedit (pfaedit.sf.net).
> And you can find some Unicode fonts on Williams page.
> I'd checked it with gnome-print-0.29.
> If you drop out some additional subroutines (Private info) from those fonts then
> it works fine with gnome-print. If you don't feel nice with pfaedit JUST SAY
> and I'll convert any-2-any for you!

Well, maybe some mistake.
I only meant, that if that guy does not find Type1 fonts with euro sign
from anywhere else, there is certainly one place, where one can find
fonts for testing. The same stands true also for many other symbols/
scripts.
Sorry for being lazy and not checking my distros URW fonts before ;-)

But:
IMHO one cannot find high-quality / freely downloadable / multi-script
TTF fonts easily from anywhere else. And do not tell me about free
unicode fonts - such thing as Unicode font cannot exist, unless it
contains horrible lot of OpenType stuff. I do not know, how good is
OpenType support in Microsoft fonts still - by high quality I meant
simply quality of TTF code.

Best wishes,
Lauris Kaplinski