Re: Improvements to Postscript backend (patches included)

[David Feuer]

On 3/28/06, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >>> -         (if cid?
> > >>> -             " /CIDFont findresource "
> > >>> -             " findfont")
> > >> I don't understand this? How are CID resources supposed to be
> > >> loaded now?
> > >
> > > According to the Postscript reference, selectfont can be used with
> > > CID resources as well as regular fonts.
>
> But a CID resource is completely useless for us since we don't get the
> corresponding CID value, AFAIK.  In case Pango does the CMap resource
> handling (this is, we send a Unicode value and Pango returns the CID)
> we can enable this again.

The current code does

/fontname /CIDFont findresource 17 scalefont setfont, where 17 is a
random number.

If I'm not mistaken, this is completely equivalent to /fontname 17
selectfont, except that it's almost certainly slower.

David