On 18/01/2011 23:11, Glenn Adams wrote:
Hi Glenn/Ivan,
Most of the Open type Fonts I come across seem to have CFF glyph data
which FOP cannot currently support. We find this limitation very
annoying and have looked into developing this feature. We haven't
started the work though, but did estimate it to be a few weeks work.
Thanks,
Chris
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]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Glenn Adams <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Ivan,
> This type of question is best put to the FOP User
> <[email protected]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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://people.apache.org/%7Espepping/>
>> > http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/ComplexScripts
>> > Regards,
>> > Glenn
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Ivan Ristic
<[email protected] <mailto:[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
