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How to download OpenType Fonts to printer's filesystem

New Here ,
Feb 03, 2006 Feb 03, 2006

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Hi there,

I want to download my OpenType Font to the printer's filesystem in order to don´t send it each time a job is printed. Does anybody have an idea of what I need to do? I know I need to process the internal font tables and then create a different file with the processed data. The font I have has the postscript outlines (CFF table), does this mean I need to convert the CFF data to a type1 PS font? or Do I only need to extract the CFF binary data and send it as it is?

I hope anybody could have the right directions to achieve that.

Thanks....
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Feb 07, 2006 Feb 07, 2006

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As far as I can tell, the when the PostScript printer driver generates a PostScript print stream, it converts the CFF table of an OpenType PS into a Type 1 font. I don't think even PostScript 3 supports CFF directly, so I guess you should do the same what the PostScript printer driver does: extract the CFF table and convert it to Type 1. The free Adobe FDK for OpenType (AFDKO) toolkit can do this.

Adam

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Feb 07, 2006 Feb 07, 2006

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Well, I'll try that one, thanks for the tip!!

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Feb 07, 2006 Feb 07, 2006

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I tried to use the AFDKO's CFFChecker program, but i get the following error each time I want to run it:

"File "F:\Tools\AFDK\FDK1.6-Win4\Tools\Programs\tx\exe\CFFChecker.py", line 46, in ?
from txlib import *
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module can not be found."

What does the error mean? I followed the installation instructions, I repeated the installation process but it did not work. What else can I do?...

Thanks in advance...

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Feb 08, 2006 Feb 08, 2006

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In the current version of the FDK for Windows., the CFFChecker is broken - a required code resource is missing. A new version of the FDK will be out within the next two or three weeks, with this fixed. If this is urgent, I can e-mail you a copy of the ;"tx.exe. program, a stand-alone command-line program for which the CFFChecker is a UI wrapper. Send me an e-mail at rroberts@adobe.com.

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