Graham Hannington wrote:

> Gotcha, thanks. I think this is what JPFOP, er, kludges (no disrespect
> intended to the developer). From the JPFOP site:
>
> > renderInlineArea() method was modified. ... For Bold, the characters are
> rendered 4 times with offset.
>
> If I read this correctly, and JPFOP is doing what I think it's doing to
> "emulate" a true bold weight, then: ingenious, but... yeurch! ;-)
>
> A more elegant (if you like, "proper") solution, as you say,
> would be to get
> a font that actually contains the different weights. I'm looking at:
>
> http://www.ricoh.co.jp/swd/font/valu-d2/wabun/index.html

Yes, printing the glyph 4 times might be acceptable for printing, but not
for searching or indexing. See also:
http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/C/C_japanese.jhtml

Also, keep in mind FOP's current limitations WRT fonts in general:
http://xml.apache.org/fop/fonts.html

Victor Mote


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