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| ray_work | JakeSays: I use PS a lot | 00:10.19 |
| | just cause I know it and it keeps my skills honed. I wrote a semaphore flag trainer for my son :-) | 00:11.05 |
| | and I've done other weird "one off" kinds of programs. If I need simple graphics, and not much speed, it's often easier than python. | 00:12.13 |
| | but of course, there is only keystroke or data file input -- no real GUI capability with GS | 00:12.46 |
| jzmer | is the gpl ghostscript shipped for win64 built with msvc? | 06:41.48 |
| | (the official binary from ghostscript.com) | 06:42.09 |
| | if so, was this release built with freetype, or just uniscribe? | 06:42.25 |
| | or it just afs? | 06:49.02 |
| JakeSays | jzmer: iirc neither. i dont believe gs requires freetype or uniscribe. | 07:17.51 |
| jzmer | i see. so afs/ft/usp are just for displaying ps/pdf/xps/pcl right? | 07:20.13 |
| JakeSays | afs? | 07:20.26 |
| jzmer | artifex font scaler? | 07:20.33 |
| | they called it deprecated | 07:20.48 |
| JakeSays | ft/usp are not used | 07:20.55 |
| | gs has its own font handling code (including a tt interpreter) | 07:21.22 |
| jzmer | really ... then why it has a page of ft_bridge ... | 07:21.49 |
| JakeSays | hold on. let me pull up gs | 07:22.27 |
| jzmer | sometimes, when i tried to convert xps to pdf with gxps, | 07:23.27 |
| | it came with a warning about subpixel hinting | 07:23.36 |
| | which is from freetype, so i guess gxps did use freetype smoehow | 07:23.51 |
| | but unsure with gs | 07:24.02 |
| JakeSays | i know mupdf uses ft | 07:25.22 |
| | perhaps the xps driver in gs uses it for something | 07:25.36 |
| | but i didnt need to include ft when i built gs earlier | 07:25.50 |
| robin_watts_mac | gs uses ft for ps/pdf. | 08:11.20 |
| | currently it doesn't use it for PCL/XPS but that is set to change. | 08:11.36 |
| | options are available to use UFST or AFS. | 08:11.53 |
| JakeSays | ah ok | 08:17.10 |
| jzmer | sad though that ufst needs a license | 08:21.33 |
| JakeSays | jzmer: ufst? | 08:33.38 |
| jzmer | monotype's | 08:45.34 |
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