[gs-bugs] [Bug 690044] Printer error (49, 4C02) with ps2write output

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http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690044





------- Additional Comments From ken.sharp at artifex.com  2008-09-24 00:13 -------
This is a moderately complex issue. 

In order to overcome the limitation of Adobe and HP PostScript interpreters with
Type 42 fonts I need to write (in PostScript) code which will read a TrueType
font, decode the tables, organise them into strings, or arrays of strings when >
64K. Additionally the GLYF table, which is most likely to exceed 64K, needs to
be broken into strings only at glyf boundaries. All the strings must be a
multiple of 2 in length, requiring padding if this is not the case.

Finally these strings must be assembled into a Type 42 font. All this within the
existing PostScript framework of opdfread.ps.

I'm sure you can appreciate that this is a great deal of work, and requires
significant testing after completion. Also there is nothing to report until the
code is essentially working. Half-finished code does nothing useful here.

So I have nothing to report. You will receive notification when I do.





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