On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 13:26, Vincent Hennebert <[email protected]> wrote: ... > No, GPL is not compatible with the Apache license. We wouldn’t be able > to ship those fonts with FOP. > Anyway, I’m not sure that that bitmap font is what you want. I don’t > know how FontForge does to convert a bitmap font into a vectorial font, > but the result is likely to be unsatisfying.
I did find that the same place has a TrueType version already. > format, like Type 1, TrueType or OpenType. Linux distribution usually > come with loads of fonts for many languages. For example, check out this > one for Hangul: > http://packages.debian.org/sid/ttf-alee Good catch--I hadn't been able to find that in my searches. > fonts are. OpenType fonts based on CFF glyphs are not supported at all. > > It must be seen whether advanced typography is needed to properly > typeset Korean (for example, glyph shaping like in Arabic). Advanced > typographic tables are not used by FOP’s layout engine at the moment. > That may make the issue much more complicated. >From what I've found so far, it looks like advanced type setting will be needed (but I think it would be fun). Thanks, Vincent. -Tom
