Mostly, this is about Type 1 fonts where we currently have a PFM parser only. Some necessary values are missing in the PFM but are available in the PFB or even the PFA. So we just need a PFB/PFA parser. Any other cases where manual modification is necessary?
On 28.09.2003 18:23:51 Victor Mote wrote: > > 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. > > My recollection is, that in some cases anyway, the metrics file may be bad > because our font-reading application is incomplete, which should be fixable. > Even if the font file itself is the culprit, my knee-jerk reaction is that > the best thing to do is to have the user edit it with font-editing software, > and to address the problem at that level, rather than trying to have FOP > work around it. I don't know of any other software that tries to allow the > user to adapt the font the way are doing now. However, ... Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
