Andreas, Chris, Thanks very much for your responses.
Andreas, > When embedding fonts, a separate metrics file should be generated for bold, italic and bold-italic (that is, if you want them to work properly). Right now, your userconfig maps all combinations (normal, bold, italic, bold-italic) to one and the same metrics file. Yep, I can see how that would be a problem... in my defence ;-), I was just copying lines in the supplied userconfig.xml that also does this. Is there a way to get TTFReader to extract separate bold, italic and bold-italic XML metrics files from a single .ttc? (This is assuming that the .ttc *does actually* contain the bold etc. glyphs, as per Chris's point, below.) It does strike me as weird that MS Gothic is showing up in bold... when I view this font in the Windows Character Map application, or set the Notepad font to MS Gothic, then it appears at a much lighter (I presume, normal) weight. Any idea why this might be happening? (On the positive side, maybe this means that the msgothic.ttc *does* contain both normal and bold faces... if only I knew how to generate separate metrics files for each weight.) Chris, > Unlike M$ Word, XSL-FO processors do not "emulate" bold text. Therefore the its up to the source font to contain glyphs for both bold and normal weights. Ah, gotcha. Is there an easy way to find out for sure whether fonts (specifically, the fonts in msgothic.ttc and msmincho.tff) actually *do* contain the different weight glyphs? (Erm, I mean: in addition to trying to render these fonts in bold via an XSL-FO processor? ;-) > Japanese Fonts typically contain glyphs for one weight. I know this because this subject has been discussed on this list before. Oops: I did search the archives before I asked, I swear :-). I've gone back and had another look... > Recommended course of action: find a Japanesse font that has glyphs for both weights. Although I'm not sure any exist; hence the frequency of this question. I can't see any suggestions for (freeware) Japanese fonts (I'm cheap too :-) with different glyph weights... anyone know of any, and where I can get 'em? (I'm off to Google for some now...) If I can't find any, then, as suggested by others in previous emails, I'll make do with a combination of fonts (although why MS Gothic appears in bold still bugs me...). Thanks again for the advice. Regards, Graham Hannington --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
