Font Subsetting and Downloading in the PostScript Printer Driver of Qt/X11

Abstract: 

This paper describes the font discovery, subset-ting, and downloading mechanism in Qt/X11. The mechanism addresses a major usability issue: prior to the implementation of this mechanism, users of Qt applications (and hence users of KDE) could not print non-Latin text, and could only print Latin text in fonts that are built into most printers. The new mechanism allows users to print text in any script that Qt/X11 supports, which includes west-ern scripts (primarily Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek), Arabic, Hebrew, and east-Asian scripts. The new mechanism also allows users to print Latin text us-ing almost any PostScript Type 1 or TrueType font that X11 supports. The mechanism usually finds font files without any configuration beyond that re-quired to use the fonts under X11.

BibTeX
@inproceedings {270861,
author = {Sivan Toledo and Lars Knoll},
title = {Font Subsetting and Downloading in the {PostScript} Printer Driver of {Qt/X11}},
booktitle = {XFree86 Technical Conference (
XFree86 Technical Conference)},
year = {2001},
address = {Oakland, CA
},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/xfree86-technical-conference/font-subsetting-and-downloading-postscript-printer-driver},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}