[cups.development] Font substitution

[Michael Sweet]

On Apr 8, 2010, at 1:05 PM, newdev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to do font substitution for a pcl printer.If the user selects a particular font from the printing dialog and it is not available as resident font in the printer then is there a mechanism to substitute the user selcted font to some resident font of the printer.Should it be done while writing custom filter or in the PPD?


The normal PCL driver path produces raster-only print jobs - doing anything more will require a lot more work (like a PostScript or PDF RIP capable of generating PCL text along with raster for any areas that can't be represented using PCL text)...

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair