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| artifexirc-bot | <emendelson> Is this the right place to ask a question about GhostPCL? In pcl/pl/plftable.c, every font has a series of numbers that include a string like this: {278.0, 720000.0 / 278.0}. If this is documented anywhere, I can't find it. Would anyone be willing to let me know what the 278.0 means? I think it must means the width of some specific character; the monospace fonts use 600 or 500, but the proportional-spaced fonts use diff | 20:54.12 |
| | <emendelson> Ignore previous message. I found that your PCL guy (as you called him) gave me the answer seven years ago and I forgot it: "for proportional fonts the pitch is only used for space width guidance and in a few other quirky circumstances. Characters will have different width because it is a proportional font, so the 313 centipoints only refers to the space character (hmi)." Apologies for wasting bandwidth. - Is there any | 21:07.29 |
| | <HenryStiles> Probably me, yes I agree it should be documented. | 21:17.04 |
| | <HenryStiles> adding fonts to that table will probably result in pain, introducing font selection by family problems, it's best to create a downloaded font as per the PCL technical reference manual. Good luck @firstlooks | 21:23.57 |
| | <emendelson> @HenryStiles - Thank you for this. Years ago, I had no trouble adding a (licensed and purchased) Prestige Elite font family, using the HP-established font ID number 8 for Prestige, and I've been updating the code with each new release. My guess is that you're right about the pain of adding a proportional font family. - I use GhostPCL to create PDFs of my WordPerfect for DOS files, and a friend is interested in doing the | 23:40.42 |
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