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Posted by Erwin Moller on 10/18/07 09:43
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Erwin Moller wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> Ok..am about to embark on making PHP generate basic formatted reports
>>> to a postscript printer attached to the server.
>>>
>>> After many struggles I have the postscript extensions installed and
>>> have been reading the documentation to at least eliminate the most
>>> basic stupid questions ;-)
>>>
>>> One stupid question remains: How do I select a (printer) embedded font?
>>>
>>> it seems that in order to specify a font it has to be found on the
>>> server. But what if there are none? and one wants to simply use an
>>> embedded one..like times roman or helvetica.? I am keen to sacrifice
>>> fancy fonts for slick printing..
>>>
>>> I am sure there is some basically stupid issue I have failed to grasp
>>> here.. be kind to me. It was my birthday yesterday ;-)
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Congrats on your birthday!
>> Hope you don't have a hangover today.
>>
>> I am not sure what the problem is: Why don't you simply install a nice
>> font on the server?
>> AFAIK you can use the fonts available at the server.
>> If you are looking for free fonts, google for 'free fonts postscript'
>> and you'll find a bunch.
>> But since I am seriously estitically impaired, I suggest you pick the
>> ones you consider slick yourself. ;-)
>>
>> This might also help:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_fonts
>>
>
Hi,
> Ok. I puzzled through it all..took a long time. But that was mostly
> because my test machine had a mishmash of apache1.3/2.0 and php4/5.
> Confused the hell out of pecl..eventually found the file to add the ps
> extenion to..but..in the meantime..I discovered apache 1.3 wouldn't
> restart..upgrading the latest php stuff had screwed something else.
>
> In the end I said rude woads and settled down to make it apache2/php5
> and finally got everything upgraded..
>
> No, what I didn't realise is that postcript fonts come in two halves -
> the AFM bit which is adobe font metric, and is the font specification,
> and PFB which contains the font vectors I suppose.
>
Sounds like a long day for you...
I don't envy you.
Glad I have a provider who really knows how to set up stuff. ;-)
(Well I pay them for it of course.)
> You need to have the AFM files for any fonts you want to use in the same
> directory as the PHP files. You don't need the PFB files unless you are
> embedding the font with the document.
>
maybe this will help, if that is an option for you:
ini_set("include_path",
ini_get("include_path").";"."/etc/fonts/wherever/the/are/stored");
That way you don't have to store the fonts in all different directories.
(Not tested)
> I fond the afm files for the two most basic fonts - helvetica and Times
> Roman - in the open office suite. his is for printing invoices etc, so
> thats enough..
>
> Sometime around midnight I rushed down to the good lady brandishing a
> sheet of A4 with 'hello world' printed on it and said 'only took me 4
> 1/2 hours to do that' ;-)
>
> The file was only 11K long as well. For postcript, that's pretty good.
> I've seen a blank sheet of paper take up 16Mbytes before now..
>
> The mac viewer took a look at it and spent a minute turning it into a
> 1.7k PDF.
>
> I think Macs and postcript are fucking WONDERFUL, don't you? "How to
> enforce the most inefficient standard on the printing world"
>
LOL, I have no clue. :P
>
>
> My wife tells me that 'Fontographer will convert any font to postcript
> if you want' and SHE has a couple of thousand littering her Mac..so
> plenty more if needed.
Good luck!
Regards,
Erwin Moller
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