Re: CJK PDF support

[Suresh Chandrasekharan <Suresh Chandrasekharan Eng Sun COM>]

Hi,
	Not seeing an answer for a month, I stared working on this. My specific 
need is to make PDF work with ttf fonts, big fonts which generally has around 
30000+ glyphs in them, currently there's no support for those complex fonts ( it 
is supported in PS printing by divding the big font into a series of font pages) 
in PDF and I'm looking into that now.
	
	The direction I'm taking is to subset the original font into simple ttf 
fonts having 256 characters each and use them for showing the glyph.
	
	Just want to make sure effort is not duplicated, that's why I sent the 
mail.

Regards,
Suresh

>On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:07:32PM -0800, suresh chandrasekharan wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>  
>> In gnome-print do we have any current plans to support PDF printing for
>> CJK fonts ? I'm planning to work on this in case nobody's looking into
>> this.
>> 
>> Suggestions ? Pointers ?
>
>Odd.  This just showed up now.
>
>Things should work somewhat currently.  All input is in utf8 and as
>long as the fonts are in an format we understand it should sorta
>work.  I've seen a few fixed bugs that related to CJK names for
>fonts.
>
>In the 2.7 time frame our goal is for better pango integration.
>Propery CJK font support should flow from that.

Thanks & Regards,
Suresh