Re: Printing PostScript

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Fabian <mfabian@example.com> writes:

    >> How does it work with Truetype-Fonts?

Out of the box (well, it need a bit of config), but ...

    Mike> It doesn't work for Japanese TrueType fonts out of the box.
    Mike> There are patches for Ghostscript 6.51 through which can
    Mike> disguise Asian TrueType fonts as CID-keyed fonts and then
    Mike> use them the same way as other CID-keyed
    Mike> fonts. http://www.gyve.org/gs-cjk/.

... you need a current-CVS ghostscript (7.x at least).

http://ghostscript.sourceforge.net/

    Mike> The resulting pdf file can be displayed by both Acroread and
    Mike> xpdf.

That is, assuming Acroread doesn't crash.  I've never tried the Linux
version, but as of April the most recent Windows version on Japanese
WinMeHarder WonMeHarder every time.  In fact, it locked Windows; hard
reset, do not pass Go, do not collect 200 kB of unsaved Word files.
Not just on Japanese, either.  See also

http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/index.html#AcrobatBug

This caveat evidently applies to pdf[la]tex as well.

I haven't tried it recently so I don't know whether Ghostscript has
worked around the Adobe (and acknowledged as such by Adobe to Aladdin)
bugs yet.  The gs that produced the problem PDFs was ~7.04.

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