Tried a PDF test document today: 4 styles of Times, 4 styles of
Triumvirate, 4 styles of Garamond, 1 style of PageStream (the DMF/FM
font) and 1 style of Orleans (a Type 1 font), plus a small bitmap.

PageStream 4.0r7 Amiga took about 10 minutes to Save-As-PDF, busily
creating 7 new .pfb downloadable files for the Compugraphic fonts.

When the PDF file (181k) was output via GhostPrint, the Garamond,
PageStream and Orleans lines were all set in Courier, but with
character-spacing for the specified fonts (/very awkward/). The Times
and Triumvirate lines were all set correctly, and the bitmap was
OK, though the halftone dither was less than optimum.

Examination of the file showed that there were /no/ fonts downloaded
with the file -- just width data. The same document output via Post-
Script had all the appropriate downloads, and printed normally.

The only way the document could be output as a proper PDF file was to
convert each of the texts in non-standard fonts to a graphic, using
the /Convert to Path/ function, as follows (assuming the text is in
a text frame or column):

1. Highlight the desired text and cut it to the clipboard (RAmiga/X).

2. Create dummy lines in the text column to restore the original
spacing.

3. Place the text cursor outside of any text frame or column, and
paste the cut text (RAmiga/V) at that point.

4. Change to the pointer tool, select the pasted text, and select
/Convert to Path/ from the Object menu.

5. Move the converted text back to its original position. If the
text is several lines, this operation may be very slow. As an
alternative, use the Edit palette to set the exact positioning
of the converted graphic.

It would be possible to skip adding the dummy lines, and simply use
/Text Wrap/ to reposition the other text after the newly converted
graphic is in place. But this would not necessarily assure exact
restoration of the original spacing.

For this test document, the original PgS4 document was 35k. The
first PDF was 181k; the second one with converted text was 293k.
As a PostScript file with all font downloads (no PPD selected)
the file size was 1.37 Mb.

--Geoff

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ggass@teleport.com Geoffrey A. Gass Foulecourt Press

G'day Geoffrey Gass,

On the subject of "[PageStreamSupport] PDF vs Non-standard Fonts", you
spoke thus:

> For this test document, the original PgS4 document was 35k. The
> first PDF was 181k; the second one with converted text was 293k.
> As a PostScript file with all font downloads (no PPD selected)
> the file size was 1.37 Mb.
>

One of the reasons is that images are embedded as ASCIIHex, and if fonts
could be embedded they probably would be the same too. This of course
makes for a larger file size. Fingers crossed, this problem will be
addressed with some sort of binary compression.

Bye,

--
Steve Bowman - Sydney, Australia

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.