[cairo] [PATCH] Generate Type 1 fonts from glyph outlines

James Cloos cloos at jhcloos.com
Wed Aug 30 07:27:54 PDT 2006


>>>>> "Carl" == Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> writes:

Carl> Beyond the file size improvements, are there other benefits besides
Carl> the xpdf rendering issue?

It is not just xpdf, but just about every gui pdf app.  If the
type1 is done well, it can also benefit printing.

In general, it is an improvement to use type1 over type3 where
possible.

-JimC
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