Tom Chen wrote: > To generate PDF correctly in Asian languages (Simplified > Chinese,Traditional Chinese, Japanese,Korean), we have two choices: > > 1) Embedding the font in PDF. > 2) Without embedding, using the asian language fonts provided by > Adobe Acrobat Reader's Asian Font Packs > (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrasianfontpack.html) > > For the first choice, the fatal disadvantage is there's font license > problem for the PDF generator(i.e. the application vendor adopt FOP).
Please clarify. You don't mean that there is a licensing problem with FOP, do you? Are you saying that you are not licensed to embed the fonts in your documents? If so, perhaps using different fonts would work. > So I much prefer the secord choice. However, FOP doesn't seem to > support the fonts in the Acrobat Reader's Asian Font Packs without > embedding. > > I wonder if there's way to take the second choice using FOP? I think so, but I wouldn't be sure until the job is done and everything works properly. Using either the Asian Font Pack or the 6.0 Reader (which seems to have AFP built in according to the document you reference), try to find the applicable font files, and build metrics files for them, as per: http://xml.apache.org/fop/fonts.html I haven't looked, but the fonts are probably OpenType wrappers of Type 1 fonts, so it seems likely that neither our TTFReader or PFMReader will work, but I would try them anyway. If that works, please consider contributing the metrics files back to the project. If not, please post a message to this list to that effect. I also have a need to have OpenType font support, but haven't had time to explore it, so maybe this is a good time. Victor Mote --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
