I take this discussion to express my worries that FOP needs to create its own support for fonts, among which Open Type Fonts. FOP's core task is the layout and printing of FO files. If FOP could rely on good font libraries, that would make our code base so much smaller and our development tasks so much easier.
If I am not mistaken, Firefox does a fairly good job at representing Indic scripts. Do they use a generally available library? Are there no such libraries? Or do I see the issue wrong? Regards, Simon On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 04:11:54PM -0700, Glenn Adams wrote: > 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. > > 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: > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Ivan Ristic <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> 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
