[Bug 1314] Wine always downloads truetype fonts into its ps files when printing

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http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314





------- Additional Comments From fsteinel(a)flonet.net  2003-22-06 10:10 -------
Bug comments restored from Gmane.org: 
 
In wine-20030302 shipped by SuSE, if you have a truetype font directory defined
such 
as the following: 
 
[FontDirs] 
"dir1" = "/home/aknaff/winefonts/core/ttf" 
 
then all fonts defined there in will be downloaded into the generated postscript
file, 
even if the printer natively understands them (as defined in  the ppd file). 
 
I.e. if I have an arial truetype font, this font is downloaded to the printer,
even though I 
have the following in my .ppd file: 
 
*Font ArialMT: 
*Font Arial-BoldMT: 
*Font Arial-BoldItalicMT: 
*Font Arial-ItalicMT: 
 
and even though I have the relevant .afm files in my [afmdirs]. 
 
The only way how I could force wine to use the printer's builtin Arial font was
to define 
a substitution table where I substituted it with itself: 
 
[System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Print\\Printers\\file\\PrinterDriverData\\FontSubTable]

1047119381 
"Courier New"="Courier New" 
"Arial"="Arial" 
"Times New Roman"="Times New Roman" 
"Webdings"="Webdings" 
"Tahoma"="Tahoma" 
... 
 
[Btw, the above FontSubTable worked for Courier New, Arial, Times New Roman, and 
Tahoma, but still not for Webdings. But that's probably a different problem]. 
 
After perusing the source code, I found the following in 
wine-20030219/dlls/wineps/font.c near the end of function PSDRV_SelectFont : 
 
    if(physDev->dc->gdiFont && !subst) { 
        if(PSDRV_SelectDownloadFont(physDev)) 
	    return 0; /* use gdi font */ 
    } 
 
    PSDRV_SelectBuiltinFont(physDev, hfont, &lf, FaceName); 
    return (HFONT)1; /* use device font */ 
 
I.e. if there is a gdiFont defined for current font (I assume, this means if a
display font 
has been loaded), and if the font is not the result of a substitution, then we
download it 
into the printer. Otherwise we try to use a builtin font. 
 
Shouldn't that be the other way round: first try to use a builtin font, and only
if that is not 
possible (because no such font defined in generic.ppd or missing .afm file)
download it.


------- Additional Comments From wine <at> alk.org.lu  2003-03-25 14:42 -------
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

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