That is a better question, but one I cannot answer, as I have not looked into the CFF support issue. Perhaps another DEV would care to respond.
G. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Ivan Ristic <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Glenn Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ivan, > > This type of question is best put to the FOP User > > <[email protected]> email list rather than the developer > > list. > > Actually, I was offering (or considering) to give back some of the > money FOP saved me (when I self-published my book). I don't think > sending my offer to the users' list would be very useful. > > > > In any case, nothing is required of FOP for you to be able to make use > > of Garamond Pro and other Adobe fonts, though certain advanced > typographic > > features may not be supported. However, if you are not familiar with > those > > advanced features, then that will likely not affect you. For typical > western > > writing systems, you should have no problem with existing off the shelf > > Truetype and Opentype fonts. > > Hoping you'd be right, I tried to use Adobe Garamond Pro right now and > FOP 1.0 responded to me with "OpenType fonts with CFF data are not > supported [...]". That leads me to believe that they are indeed not > supported. A search on Google did not yield anything useful. If, on > the other hand, you are saying that my problem can be resolved on the > users' mailing list, I will be happy to give it a try. > > Or maybe I should instead ask, how much work is to support OpenType > fonts with CFF data? > > > > Regards, > > Glenn > > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Ivan Ristic <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Glenn, > >> > >> Thanks for your quick response. I don't know what those things mean, > >> so I am afraid I can't be more specific. I was talking purely from a > >> end-user perspective, say, being able to purchase Garamond Pro from > >> Adobe and plug it in with no trouble. > >> > >> [BTW, I appreciate the re-send, but I have subscribed to the list and > >> will stay subscribed for the duration of this email thread.] > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Glenn Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > What do you mean by "fully"? If you are referring to the OpenType > GDEF, > >> > GSUB, GPOS support, then work is already underway to add that > >> > functionality. > >> > See the following for further info: > >> > http://people.apache.org/~spepping/ > >> > http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/ComplexScripts > >> > Regards, > >> > Glenn > >> > > >> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Ivan Ristic <[email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Hi FOP developers, > >> >> > >> >> Could someone in the know possibly give me an estimate about how much > >> >> work is needed to get FOP to fully support OpenType fonts? I > >> >> understand that estimates can be tough to work out (and that are > often > >> >> unreliable), but even having an idea about the needed amount would > >> >> help me a great deal. > >> >> > >> >> If someone came along to sponsor (fund) such development, would that > >> >> be acceptable to the group? > >> >> > >> >> Thanks. > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> Ivan Ristić > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Ivan Ristić > > > > > > > > -- > Ivan Ristić >
