Re: Printing PostScript

["Piekenbrock Thomas (NMP/Tokyo)" <thomas.piekenbrock@example.com>]

>Jason Katz-Brown <jason@example.com> writes:

> > I am using KDE 2.2 and can input japanese well, 
> > and konqy can view it. 
> > However when i print to a .ps, gv and its friends 
> > show gibberish instead of 
> > Japanese.
> > 
> > I have looked for the fabled 'psconv' which i suspect 
> > might help me -- would 
> > it, if so where can I find it? (a .deb would be super :)

> You don't need to change anything in the PostScript files, 
> they should be fine. But of course you need Japanese fonts 
> for Ghostscript to display them.

I also need better understanding of this matter.
Is there no way to embed the font information into the
ps-file? That would make them portable. How does Ghostscript 
get access to all the fonts which are being used with X-windows?
How does it work with Truetype-Fonts? And what happens, if the
ps-file is converted to pdf by ps2pdf. Can Acroread (any OS)
show the fonts correctly?

Regards,
Thomas Piekenbrock