[cups.development] How to show printer resident fonts in write?

[Hin-Tak Leung]

That's a bit strange. You are saying it is a postscript dot-matrix printer? That combination is somewhat rare, but never say never.

You might be able to do what you want with pycups, or one of the ipp tools to query the ppd.

But the thing is, you still need the fonts on the client side to do WYSIWYG  on the writer, which means you might as well embed the fonts from the client for fidelity of WYSIWYG.

One alternative, is to strip selected fonts with a cups filter .

I think the critical question is: what exactly are you trying to achieve? Printing on a typical printer is still on the whole slower than network transport of any reasonably size print job, so even if you have small print jobs by removing the fonts, you still have to wait.

--- On Tue, 3/1/12, Gurmeet Singh <gurmeet.janjua at yahoo.in> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply.
> The printer is PostScript printer. I am able to print the
> test page and other files from the printer with cups using
> ppd file.
> Printer has some resident fonts which i need to display in
> the writer. so that user can write in the writer with fonts
> which are in ROM. which will speed up the printing.
> I have done this in windows for same printer. I have used
> .ufm font files in case of windows. This is automatic in
> windows DDK. I have just given the reference in .GPD file
> for font files. when printer installed/Uninstalled, these
> .ufm font files automatically installed/uninstalled in
> system but i don't know how same is possible in ubuntu (in
> PPD files).
> 
> Please let me know, Where i can give reference of font
> files in ppd file or i have to develope a C/C++ program to
> acheive this so that the font will display in writer?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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