Hi all,
I am encountering the similar problem with you for generating Traditional Chinese pdf.
I have generated the font metrics file from window mingliu.ttc font file. However, still many words from Supplementary Character Set (http://www.microsoft.com/hk/hkscs/default.asp) are missed. Moreover, it seems that true type extension (tte) font file are not supported.
Further, I would like to know whether fop support more than 1 font metrics in userconf ? If yes, how to specify?
Thanks!
Eddie Cheng
-----Original message-----
From:Tom Chen<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:fop-user<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:53:18 -0400
Subject: RE: PDF in Asian languages (Simplified Chinese,Traditional Chinese, Japanese,Korean)
Hi Victor,
Thank you very much for reply! But I still have some questions:
1) Do you imply that adding the metrics xml files generated from Adobe Asian Font Pack or the 6.0 Reader(without embedding the font file e.g. TTF file) doesn't raise license problem?
2) Do you where we can find the spec for those Adobe Asian Font Pack?
Thank you,
Tom Chen
| "Victor Mote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
07/10/2003 12:22 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: RE: PDF in Asian languages (Simplified Chinese,Traditional Chinese, Japanese,Korean) |
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
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