Issue 8850 - Embed TrueType outlines in PS/PDF output
Summary: Embed TrueType outlines in PS/PDF output
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: gsl
Classification: Code
Component: www (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: All Linux, all
: P1 (highest) Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: issues@gsl
QA Contact: issues@gsl
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2002-10-30 17:07 UTC by gveiga
Modified: 2004-07-03 15:24 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description gveiga 2002-10-30 17:07:44 UTC 
Using TrueType fonts in a OO document, the generic PS driver will not embed the
TT fonts as Type 42 fonts in the PS output. Ghostscript  ps2pdf will embed use
Type 3 bitmap fonts in the PDFG output.  This will display poorly with the
Acrobat reader and other PS devices, not to mention the size of the resulting file.

Is there a better PS driver already in the works.  This is a very important
issue for the usability of OO. More and more, "printing" actually means
generating high quality PDF output.
Comment 1 pavel 2002-10-30 18:39:40 UTC 
Just choose another driver:

pavel@SnowWhite:/tmp/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/share/psprint/driver> grep -l
Type42 *

Those files support Type42 inclusion...
Comment 2 gveiga 2002-11-01 19:17:42 UTC 
In case someone else comes to this page with the same question I had.

Indeed, OO psprint is capable of embeding TrueType / Type42 fonts.
However, when generating PS output for Ghostscript use the "Acrobat
Distiller 3.0" driver, as some of the printer specific drivers break gs.
For PDF output, "Acrobat Distiller 3.0" is also the best choice.

I used GNU Ghostscript 7.05 for these tests.
Comment 3 philipp.lohmann 2002-11-12 15:38:02 UTC 
issues@printing -> issues@gsl
Comment 4 philipp.lohmann 2002-11-12 15:39:05 UTC 
reassign
Comment 5 philipp.lohmann 2002-11-12 15:39:41 UTC 
transition from printing to gsl
Comment 6 philipp.lohmann 2003-09-01 14:02:07 UTC 
There is a special PPD for this now (Generic T42 enabled)
Comment 7 lohmaier 2004-07-03 15:24:52 UTC 
Not yet reopening issue.

May I ask why the type42-enabled one is not the default PPD for creating a
PDF-Converter?