moment (version 0.28) unfortunately not. This is much asked feature and will be present in next version of gnome-print.

If neither your X server nor your X font server supports you can try one of the TruType font servers: xfstt (http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/) or xfsft (http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/ .

It depends of your gnome-print version. Up to version 0.26 you have to manually add these to fontmap file (found at PREFIX/fonts). Starting from version 0.27 you can use program gnome-font-install. Just run it, giving the directory(ies) with your font files (pfb and afm) as argument, and send output to either PREFIX/fontmap2 or ~/.gnome/fonts/fontmap.

Linux Xprt build from http://xprint.mozdev.org/'s source supports TrueType fonts out-of-the-box (starting with the 008 development tree; xprint.mozdev.org's releases <= 007 do not support TrueType fonts) and and does not require any special actions. Sun's Xprt on Solaris (/usr/openwin/bin/Xprt) has TrueType font support out-of-the-box and does not require any special actions.

Make sure that in the PC Setup (BIOS) that your Parallel Port (LPTx) is set to a Standard Centronics/Parallel Port. If you don't have a selection for Standard make sure that you do NOT have it set to ECP or EPP. Our ports are standard Parallel/Centronics Ports. If you have any devices, such as a switch box or a software key in-between the printer and the PC, do the following: turn all of your equipment off, disconnect these devices, turn everything back on and then try again.

Current gnome-print relies entirely on underlying printing system for interfacing with actual printers. So it uses whatever libraries/prograsm your printing system use. In future it may implement direct drivers too, but of course, the general ones remain always present. Why my application should use gnome-print? After all it is not so difficult to produce PostScript manually and doing so gives me endless possibilities.

Unfortunately there is no good documentation about using gnome-print. The best way is probably to look into example code in tests directory in gnome-print source.

If your document contains a 2-byte TrueType font with the same name as a Type 1 font resident on the printer, QuarkXPress will access the font on the printer when printing. Any glyphs will print at the resolution determined by the printer. NOTE: Your text may reflow when this substitution occurs if the font metrics of the Type 1 font are different than the metrics of the TrueType font.

Yes, you can. You still need X, Gtk+ and gnome to be installed, but X does not have to run on your machine. Of course, you cannot use print preview or printer selection widgets in that case. You also have to start your console program with gtk_type_init instead of gtk_init or gnome-init.

Gnome-print uses the same coordinate system as PostScript page description language. I.e. initially the 0,0 is at lower-left corner of page, x grows to right, y upwards and one unit corresponds to 1/72th of inch. You can change coordinate system using following methods: gnome_print_translate (pc, x, y) gnome_print_scale (pc, xscale, yscale) gnome_print_concat (pc, matrix) If unsure, consult some textbook about computational geomtery.

Most of the fonts I downloaded from various sites on the web. The rest came with programs or operating systems I've bought. A few have been sent to me by people who have invented scripts.

Although QuarkXPress cannot subset and embed 2-byte fonts, other applications can. One such application is Adobe Acrobat Distiller 4.0 or later. NOTE: For instructions on using Adobe Acrobat Distiller to create a Portable Document Format (PDF) file from an East Asian version of QuarkXPress, please see below: "How can someone who does not have East Asian language resources or fonts print my document?"

The easiest way is to use gnome binary distribution. Consult http://www.gnome.org/start/ about both how to get binaries and/or source for gnome packages. If you are using realatively modern GNU/Linux distribution chances are that gnome-print is already included in it. But as gnome-print is rapidly developing, you may want to check for updates.

While XFree86 does not, at the time of writing, natively support TrueType fonts, there is a number of third party solutions. Some information about these options is included below. The XFree86 project is not responsible for any of these; please send any inquiries about them to relevant newsgroups or, eventually, to their authors.

If you're using the TEXT option in MasterWorks, there is a check box option on the TEXT PROPERTY box labeled "TTF". Check that box if you want MasterWorks to display your system TrueType fonts. You can then select and create lettering from those TrueType fonts found on your system. You may also digitize TrueType fonts yourself by using the File > Import TTF option to bring the text into MasterWorks as artwork segments. This happens because the .jpg file is a bitmap image or raster file.

AutoPunch is not suitable for digitizing TrueType fonts. There are plans to release an optional HyperFont add-on for the Futura? program.

Most people naturally associate TrueType fonts with text. Arial, Courier New and Times New Roman are all examples of standard TrueType fonts containing text. There is, however, another standard TrueType font called Wingdings that contains symbols instead of text. Typing ‘abc’ produces symbols rather than text. We use a similar principle when producing a logo as a TrueType font.

What You Need to Know About OpenType - The Facts about OpenType Fonts and their role in Desktop Publishing

Many sources will tell you that TrueType fonts—a technology developed by Apple Computer in partnership with Microsoft—are buggy and unstable, and indeed, some are. But in our experience, the problems are isolated to a few bad apples (no pun intended) that we rarely see. We always try to accommodate our customers' files as best we can. So, our feeling is that if you have to use TrueType fonts as opposed to Type1, so be it.

Open the "Fonts" control panel, and click "Add". Then, look for the font files (extension *.TTF) where you copied or unpacked them. Select them, and click OK. You may install several fonts at the same time, simply by selecting them. Windows 95 requires a slightly different procedure. Open the "Fonts" folder you will find in the Control Panel located within "My Computer" icon. Then, simply copy the TrueType font into it. This type of file is generated by Windows 3.xx when a new font is installed.

Postscript fonts consist of two files, a screen font and a printer font. As it is used today it is a format developed by Adobe and adopted by other font foundries. It is used primarily by high-end imagesetters who prefer it because the relationship between screen image and printed output is more reliable. In most cases you need Adobe Type Manager to use Postscript fonts effectively. TrueType fonts consist of a single file which contains both the screen and printer versions of the font.

Your PSW 2.00a as it is now, without the Option, digitizes TT fonts in the lettering part of the software with a Complex Fill step satin or satin stitch. With Complex Fill stitches, you only have one stitch inclination. With step satin fills, this may give an adequate finished result, but usually not as pleasing as the built-in fonts. With Satin fill stitches you can have very long stitches, which are easy to catch and snag.

Adobe PostScript® Type 1 is a worldwide standard for digital type fonts (International Standards Organization outline font standard, ISO 9541). It was first developed by Adobe Systems for use in PostScript printers. Although Adobe is a leader in the design and manufacturing of Type 1 software and maintains the standards for Type 1, hundreds of companies around the world have designed and released more than 30,000 fonts in the Type 1 format.

When printing the same document to both a 300 dpi device and a 100 or 200 dpi device, you may frequently see a difference in font size. Though the fonts are scaleable, the scaling will only be to the nearest dot. A TrueType character rendered to 37 pixels tall on a 300 dpi DeskJet, will be 24.7 pixels tall to be the same size on a 200 dpi fax. Since only an integral number of pixels can be used, 24.7 must be rounded to either 24 or 25 pixels.

Regular fonts are designed primarily to be printed at high resolution. Pixel fonts are designed at low resolution especially for screen display. When you view a regular font on the screen, you are seeing an approximation of what will appear on a printed page and it is usually compromised because of the screen's relatively low resolution.

Yes, there is. You can acess both subscription/unsubscription and archives from web address: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gnome-print The adress of list (for posting messages) is: gnome-print@ximian.com

The best way is to use gnome bug tracking system (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/). Bugs entered there are never forgot by developers, as bugs reported by email often are. If reporting bug, be as exact as possible. Code examples are great. If reporting bugs related to PostScript printing, try to attach resulting PostScript file in addition to description, how your program produced it.

TrueType fonts have to be printed as graphics which means that a lot of data needs to be sent to the printer. Current serial and parallel ports have a limited speed which means that the printer will often have to stop and wait until it has received a complete line of data. Our drivers contain some 'resident' fonts which use the font that is built-in to the printer.