Re: [iText-questions] Best Font to support all European languages ?

2007-04-20 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
mister bean wrote: If you are based in the US, you will discover that arialuni.ttf is hard to find, as it is not installed by default on US systems. Oh, I didn't know that. Now I understand why an American reviewer of my book wrote that I was using too many 'exotic' fonts (including

Re: [iText-questions] Best Font to support all European languages ?

2007-04-20 Thread Paul Hastings
Bruno Lowagie (iText) wrote: was to explain how to use a wide range of fonts. However, I thought of arialuni.ttf as a font that was widely used. it kind of is, just not so much on plain-jane windows installs in the US. if you do i18n work, even in the US, you usually have it.

Re: [iText-questions] Best Font to support all European languages ?

2007-04-20 Thread Harakiri
--- Bruno Lowagie (iText) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mister bean wrote: If you are based in the US, you will discover that arialuni.ttf is hard to find, as it is not installed by default on US systems. Oh, I didn't know that. Now I understand why an American reviewer of my book wrote

Re: [iText-questions] Best Font to support all European languages ?

2007-04-19 Thread Harakiri
Thanks for the reply, the font looks promising. As always with embedded fonts - they have to be as small as possible to not make a small pdf to large. Do you know if embedding this font (or any other) will work on other OS(Languages) too ? Is Times Roman better then Arial ? Or is the gentium

Re: [iText-questions] Best Font to support all European languages ?

2007-04-19 Thread Paulo Soares
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Best Font to support all European languages ? Thanks for the reply, the font looks promising. As always with embedded fonts - they have to be as small as possible to not make a small pdf to large. Do you know if embedding this font (or any other

Re: [iText-questions] Best Font to support all European languages ?

2007-04-19 Thread mister bean
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harakiri Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:18 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Best Font to support all European languages ? Thanks for the reply, the font looks promising. As always with embedded

Re: [iText-questions] Best Font to support all European languages ?

2007-04-19 Thread Brian McKeever
On 4/19/07, mister bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't vouch for this font (I don't use it) so I don't know if it fulfills your requirements of a small embedded size. Perhaps Pablo or another forum member can speak to this. Good luck. My post and Paulo's response from a few weeks ago may be

[iText-questions] Best Font to support all European languages ?

2007-04-18 Thread Harakiri
Hello, i read the peace example with multiple languages and their font. Im still unsure on the font choice tho, so far it seems that arial.ttf is able to display all european languages. Can anyone suggest the right font ? Specifically the major languages like france,german and russian should be

Re: [iText-questions] Best Font to support all European languages ?

2007-04-18 Thread mister bean
If you're working on Windows the charmap tool (C:\WINDOWS\system32\charmap.exe) permits you to see the entire set of implemented glyphs in a particular font file. The version of TimesRoman that is bundled with Windows, it appears, covers all European fonts, plus Cyrillic (Russian) and some,