[Issue 43029] support PS-OpenType/OTF/(SFNT with CFF) fonts for PDF export and printing

[adrianjohnson at openoffice.org]

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------- Additional comments from adrianjohnson at openoffice.org Mon Apr 14 14:01:30 +0000 2008 -------
> I had a closer look at the PS export and especially its font
> handling. For CFF fonts the fallback method seems to be used: The
> glyph outlines get wrapped into a Type1, but hints are lost. Of course
> hints in Type1 fonts are not as important as for TTFs, but since the
> conversion between CFF and Type1 can be done without any loss, I was
> hoping for that. I already have some code that does that, but it is
> not reliable enough yet. If we need a quick solution the fallback to
> outlines seems to be a reasonable alternative though. On the other
> hand experts advocating CFF outlines over TTF outlines seem to be
> extremely sensitive about this topic.

Yes, subsetting CFF to Type 1 would be better. I looked into this when
I wrote the CFF subsetting but never got around to actually writing any
code. Preserving the hinting in PDF was the priority while subsetting
CFF to Type 1 for PS was in the "nice to have" category.

> The full-CFF to subset-CFF conversion used in cairo's PDF export is
> very nice indeed. Thanks for the pointer! We'll need CFF-subsetting on
> Windows too, but don't have any use for other parts of cairo on that
> platform yet. There are not too many deep dependencies into cairo's
> infrastructure, so if breaking this part out is technically feasible
> I'd like to do it, if you agree.

You are welcome to use the code. I am interested in seeing free
software have full support for OTF/CFF fonts. The only dependencies I
am aware of are cairo-array.c and cairo-hash.c. Of course it would
also be nice for cairo to receive any bug fixes and enhancements you
make to the code.

I have been thinking about whether adding API to cairo to expose the
font subsetting code would be useful. I don't know if anything like
that would be useful to you. However breaking out whatever you need
is probably the easiest solution.


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