Hi Mehdi, I'm against that since we already have mechanisms to control some of these traits and this would overlap with them. For example, we have the referenced-fonts element (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/fonts.html#embedding) which controls whether we embed or not. And we have the encoding-mode attribute on the font element to control if single-byte or cid mode should be used. Granted, that's not exactly what you're after, but I believe this already covers 95% of the use cases if not more.
The only thing you can't currently do is embed a full font in CID mode (or reference it). The problem here is the character map that should be used when in CID mode. I think that would require some research first so we know how best to handle this. For example, referencing only makes sense if a TrueType font can be installed directly on the printer. But then, the question is in which mode the characters can be addressed. Single-byte (like we currently fall back to) is probably not a problem unless you need to print Asian documents. Please note that we also don't support full TTF embedding/referencing in CID mode in PDF documents. So I'm not sure if we really need that at the moment. If we do, I believe it would generally suffice to extend encoding-mode from (auto|single-byte|cid) to (auto|single-byte|cid|cid-full). We may need a "cmap" parameter then to change the default CMap (currently "Identity-H" like in PDF) since our subsetting code uses custom mappings, not Unicode or any other encoding scheme (like "90ms-RKSJ-H"). On 09.11.2010 12:08:36 mehdi houshmand wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on making TTF subset embedding configurable such that a > user can opt for either full font embedding, subset embedding or just > referencing, this would be extending the work Jeremias submitted. I > was considering adding a parameter to the font configuration file > called "embedding" with 3 possible values "none", "subset" and "full". > This would allow the user to configure the embedding mode on a font by > font basis. What do people think about this proposal? > > Thanks > > Mehdi Jeremias Maerki
