Re: Printing glyphs (Was: GNUstep 0.8.5 pre-release)

[Fred Kiefer]

I did write a short hack to allow for glyph printing even without 
support in the backend. In the long run this must be replaced again. But 
I think that this should be done on the NSLayoutManager level, as we 
should stick with the show PS operator and supply characters to it, 
instead of sending glyphs to PostScript.
Perhaps the current operations to draw a glyph run (send font, send 
colour, move to point, send glyphs and clear the path) could also be 
merged into one single backend command to simplify things for most 
backends. And for the other backends this can be implemented easily with 
the current code.

Fred

Alexander Malmberg wrote:
> Adam Fedor wrote:
>
> > Also, printing, after a brief spell of barely working, doesn't anymore.
> > I'll have to figure out how to display glyphs in PostScript now...
>
> Just a quick note about this: I've looked a bit at it, and it seems to
> me that the backend supplying the fonts (eg. -xlib or -art) and the
> printing "backend" (GSStreamContext) are going to have to talk a lot
> with each other while printing. 'glyphshow' should be able to handle
> this, and I know I can get back-art to provide postscript font and glyph
> names (for printable fonts, anyway).