Re: no way to print documents that use true type fonts??

[Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>]

* Bruno Boettcher <bboett@erm1.u-strasbg.fr> writes:

> xfstt worked like a charm, i read the FAQ but nowhere is spoken about gs, and

Yes, there is spoken about gs:

| 3.5 How do I print documents which use *.ttf fonts?
| 
| 	  Unfortunately the X Consortium decided in its early days that the
| 	  display and printer are completely unrelated devices. There was no
| 	  common architecture for graphics devices. The recent approach to
| 	  close this gaping architectual hole is to use a X Print Server.
| 
| 	  A solution is to use ghostscript's ability to render ttf fonts.
| 	  In order to help ghostscript figure out which fonts are available
| 	  the --gslist option was added to xfstt. Usage example
| 	  xfstt --gslist --sync > fontmap

Cheers,
  Colin

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Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>