We noticed that when fonts are embeded by FOP they are imported with
"Windows" encoding (in Adobe File->Document Info.->Fonts...). If you use a
Adobe tool to embeded a font it's encoding is "Built-in" (or something to
that effect). We found our Unix boxes needed things tweaked,similar to
whats described by Chuck below, to make the FOP embeded fonts work. The
"Windows" encoding happened even if the FOP processing was run on a
non-Windows computer.
I still don't get why that works like that. A clean solution to this would
be something nice for the documentation library :)
JohnPT
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12/14/01 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: True Type Fonts in Fop
Please respond to fop-user
Sam,
What I have found is that, in certain situations, you have to also
install the font in your print manager so that the font can be properly
sent to the printer. It all depends on the software being used to print
the .pdf file. We're printing from Adobe Acrobat® under windows in one
scenario and the font was printing fine. Then, using CUPS under UN*X, we
had to configure the print software so that it too could see the font. I
don't remember if we had to actually install the font, but we had to
tweak the configuration settings so that it would send the font properly
to the printer. The embedded font needs to be sent to the printer and
the printer needs to be properly informed to use the font during the
print. Acrobat® was doing it with the default setup. CUPS wasn't. I was
also able to configure Acrobat® to not print the font but, I don't
remember how I did that.
Chuck
Sam Prokop wrote:
>Hi,
>i´ve got the following problem,
>i did everthing like it is said in http://xml.apache.org/fop/fonts.html,
>created metrics etc..
>
>fop says: "Writing 12180 bytes of font data"
>
>But there is still the standard font in my pdf.
>
>i´m using fop 0.20.2.
>
>the entry in the conf/userconfig.xml:
>
> <font metrics-file="FONTS\ANTQUAB.XML" kerning="yes"
>embed-file="C:\WINNT\FONTS\ANTQUAB.TTF">
> <font-triplet name="BookAntiqua,Bold"
>style="normal" weight="bold"/>
> <font-triplet name="Book Antiqua Bold"
>style="normal" weight="bold"/>
> </font>
>
>this is the beginning of the metrics-file:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><font-metrics type="TYPE0">
> <font-name>BookAntiqua,Bold</font-name>
> <embed></embed>
> <cap-height>685</cap-height>
> <x-height>0</x-height>
>
>--
>Sam
>
Keiron Liddle wrote:
When Fop is creating a PDF file by default it supports all inbuilt pdf
fonts.
ie.
Helvetica
HelveticaOblique
HelveticaBold
HelveticaBoldOblique
TimesRoman
TimesItalic
TimesBold
TimesBoldItalic
Courier
CourierOblique
CourierBold
CourierBoldOblique
Symbol
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