Re: Embedding font triplets w/ a single TTF file

2007-02-04 Thread Daniel Noll
Vincent Hennebert wrote: I doubt you will find any free font with both large Unicode support and several variants. You might want to give a try to FreeFont (http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/), which have a fairly reasonable support of Unicode, although not identical among the variants. I guess you

Re: Embedding font triplets w/ a single TTF file

2007-02-02 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 31.01.2007 11:32:09 Chris Bowditch wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: Just for those technically interested how this effect would be done in PDF, here's an example: snip what=very useful PDF snippet/ I think the key value here is the use of 2 Tr which gives each glyph a border

Re: Embedding font triplets w/ a single TTF file

2007-02-01 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Daniel, Are there even any fonts which both support a large subset of unicode and have bold and italic variants? I went searching a while back and found nothing. I doubt you will find any free font with both large Unicode support and several variants. You might want to give a try to

Re: Embedding font triplets w/ a single TTF file

2007-01-31 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Chris Bowditch a écrit : Jeff Vannest wrote: -Original Message- From: Manuel Mall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:01 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: Embedding font triplets w/ a single TTF file FOP requires a font containing

Re: Embedding font triplets w/ a single TTF file

2007-01-31 Thread Chris Bowditch
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Just for those technically interested how this effect would be done in PDF, here's an example: snip what=very useful PDF snippet/ I think the key value here is the use of 2 Tr which gives each glyph a border of a certain width which makes the font appear bold. So if

Re: Embedding font triplets w/ a single TTF file

2007-01-31 Thread Daniel Noll
Vincent Hennebert wrote: So if I were you, I wouldn't try to derive a bold typeface from a normal one ;-) Like Jeremias said I would rather find a naturally bold font. Are there even any fonts which both support a large subset of unicode and have bold and italic variants? I went searching a

RE: Embedding font triplets w/ a single TTF file

2007-01-30 Thread Jeff Vannest
-Original Message- From: Manuel Mall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:01 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: Embedding font triplets w/ a single TTF file FOP requires a font containing the actual bold (or italic) characters it has

Re: Embedding font triplets w/ a single TTF file

2007-01-30 Thread Chris Bowditch
Jeff Vannest wrote: -Original Message- From: Manuel Mall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:01 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: Embedding font triplets w/ a single TTF file FOP requires a font containing the actual bold (or italic

Re: Embedding font triplets w/ a single TTF file

2007-01-30 Thread Jeremias Maerki
8:01 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: Embedding font triplets w/ a single TTF file FOP requires a font containing the actual bold (or italic) characters it has no capability to derive / render a bold character from a given 'plain' character. You would need to find

Re: Embedding font triplets w/ a single TTF file

2007-01-29 Thread Manuel Mall
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 09:16, Jeff Vannest wrote: I am embedding fonts into a PDF document. If I use Arial I can use the arial.ttf and arialbd.ttf files for the font triplets Arial/normal/normal and Arial/normal/bold respectively. However, certain fonts only have a single TTF. For