Fellas:
I'm just a user, but one with a mountain of experience using the font
stuff in FOP. Can I make a suggestion. Don't let one question from one
person cause the changes you are talking about. The font metrics file is
not a bad thing. It is quite simple to use if you read the instructions
provided on the website. Having the file generated on the fly, and
stored in a "basedir", might sound like a good idea, the reality is it
can cause major headaches. In a production environment you are creating
a situation where a person will have to edit the file and replace the
file on a server after it is installed, if they need to customize their
font.. Not good.
What Isabelle was struggling with was a lack of understand of how to
use, and generate a metrics file. This can easily be solved by telling
her RTFM, pardon my bad language. You have provided an excellent
resource on you website on how to use the classes in FOP to generate the
metrics file you need for use inside FOP.
just a suggestion,
thank you for your efforts, and ears
Rob
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 07:36, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: J.Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > Andreas L. Delmelle wrote:
> > >>Problem 2: The better solution is to eliminate the font-metrics file
> > >>completely, have the config point to the font file itself, and
> > >>read the font
> > >>file on-the-fly to get the metric information.
> > ...
> > > I like this idea even better... I always wondered why you first had to
> > > generate the metrics file
> >
> > This is in the archives. The point is that you can edit the metrics
> > files, and there are fonts out there which actually need this.
> >
> > Of course, we could have both.
>
> So, the preferred solution would be to generate an XML-metrics file
> on-the-fly and store it in the fontBaseDir (meaning no *complete*
> elimination of the metrics file).
> The next time the same font is used, the metrics will already be there for
> pickup *and* the possibility remains of manually altering the metrics if
> needed.
>
> Agreed?
>
> Greetz,
>
> Andreas
>
>
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