On 08/03/12 04:12, Vincent Hennebert wrote: > Just my 2 cents on a particular detail... > > On 07/03/12 07:51, Craig Ringer wrote: >> On 06/03/12 18:49, mehdi houshmand wrote: > <snip/> >>> So with that in mind, what exactly are you trying to do? Why are you >>> using FOP to merge PDFs? >> I'm using FOP to produce documents containing a mixture of automatically >> typeset formatted text and graphics. Many of the graphics are PDF >> documents, and need to be PDF documents because they contain vector >> artwork and text that would lose quality and grow massively in size if >> embedded in rasterised form. > > Is SVG an option for you? That might save you a lot of trouble. Or if > not readily available, that might still be less work.
Alas, SVG isn't an option. We have a large body of work already in PDF (and EPS) format that we can't easily convert to SVG. Until I checked just now I didn't know that SVG even supported embedded fonts. Does fop actually support that and include embedded SVG fonts in output PDF? -- Craig Ringer
