Perhaps I am posting this question on the wrong list or perhaps my
question has been asked and answered before.
But to state my question again, why is it not sufficient to supply
FOP with a font metrics file and the font triplets in the
configuration file? Why does it seem that FOP needs to be able to
open and load the font file itself? Is that the intended behavior or
is it a problem that could potentially be addressed? Is there
something I could be doing that would make FOP work with fonts other
than the Base14 and without embedding the font? OK, that's more than
one question.
Thanks,
Loran Kary
On Jul 6, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Loran Kary wrote:
I need to be able to use some fonts other than the Base 14 in the
PDF's I generate.
I have created some font metrics files with TTFReader and in the
configuration file I specify the font metrics files and the font
triplets.
If I specify an "embed-url" with the path of the font ttf file,
this seems to work. But I don't want to have to embed the fonts in
the PDF file because they are already installed on my Mac OS X
system. I just want to reference those fonts in the PDF file.
Since I have supplied FOP with the font metrics and the font
triplets, I would expect that FOP has everything it needs to use
those fonts in the PDF.
But without embedding the font, I get the severe exception, cannot
load font, and no PDF output.
This is with FOP 0.93 and I understand there may be some known
problems in this area. Can anyone tell me more?
Thanks,
Loran Kary
