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Fonts and Scalers
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- Artifex®
offers a competitive font and font scaler solution
for our family of PDL interpreters. Our fonts
are available for pre-licensing evaluation with
a signed NDA. Pricing for our fonts and scaler
technologies is very competitive and may be combined
with our interpreter pricing.
- FontFocus
TM:
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- FontFocus
provides improved readability for text at small
point sizes on for low resolution (display) applications.
Please review our white paper on the technical
details of FontFocus.
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- Font
scalers:
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- Ghostscript®
PostScript and PCL interpreters feature commercial
quality font scaling technology with our own Type
1 hinted rasterizer, a non-hinted True Type rasterizer,
and a non-hinted Intellifont rasterizer (for compatibility
with older PCL files that download Intellifont
data). Also we provide an interface for communication
with 3d party font scalers, such as Monotype Imaging's
UFST (Universal Font Scaling Technology) and FreeType,
which may be licensed directly from these vendors.
These font rasterizers allow users to view and
print fonts embedded in documents and downloaded
fonts beyond resident font sets.
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Type1
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Type42
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TrueType
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Intellifont
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PostScript fonts:
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- Level
1 and 2 PostScript-generating applications and
drivers traditionally rely on the presence of
a set of 35 fonts in the RIP, with a particular
set of symbols available in these fonts. We offer
a high quality set of type faces whose appearance
closely matches that of the Adobe base 35 fonts,
with the full set of traditional Adobe symbols
and with compatible metrics. These fonts are Type
1 format. While PostScript LanguageLevel 3 does
not specify a particular set of fonts, applications
typically rely on those present in Adobe printers,
which consist of the traditional base 35 with
additional symbols plus an additional 101 fonts.
Our base 35 PS fonts support the extended PSLL3
symbol set. If additional resident fonts are needed,
Agfa offers a complete set of the 136 PSLL3 fonts.
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- PCL
fonts:
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- Older
HP printers including HP's LaserJet 4si have a
compliment of 45 base fonts. The LaserJet 4600
printers offer the base 45 plus the base 35 PostScript
fonts for a total of 80 fonts. We offer a high
quality font solution compatible with the 80 font
set found in the HP LaserJet 4600. Other devices
offer even more fonts, and again, additional Monotype
Imaging's fonts may be used.
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- Asian
fonts:
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Ghostscript's PDF, PostScript and PCL interpreters
can handle Chinese, Japanese and Korean CID fonts,
which may be licensed from 3d parties. Ghostscript
is compatible with several font downloaders, and
has been tested with the DynaFont installer and
the Ryobi installer. Ghostscript can work with
Asian fonts in a variety of formats, such as:
- CIDFont
format (the most popular today) including those
embedded in PDF or PostScript
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Older Type 0 PostScript fonts
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TrueType format (used with the PCL interpreter)
- Ghostscript
can load the Adobe CSL (not provided). Portions
of this are expected/required by some older Asian
CIDFonts that have non-standard instructions.
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Any of the above Asian fonts embedded in PostScript
or PDF documents.
- The
latest Morisawa CIDFonts.
Older
Morisawa fonts (with double encryption) require
a license directly from Morisawa.
Ghostscript
can use its AGFA UFST interface to produce hinted
Asian fonts (UFST is available under separate
license).
Obtaining
the freely available versions:
To
obtain the latest freely-available version of Ghostscript
PostScript and PDF, please download from the following
URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
To
obtain the latest freely-available version of GhostPCL
and Ghostprinter, please download from the following
URL: http://www.artifex.com/downloads/
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