Hi, I'm evaluating :
1) Java 2) Open source font models. I've had a look at iText, Batik and FOP. Since the FOP community seems to be the most active, my message goes to this list ;-) Here we go : I've been confronted to the terrible : [FATAL] Unicode cmap table not present [FATAL] Unsupported format: Aborting ... when I tried to generate some font metrics for a true type font. Indeed, the following comment in TTFFile.java : //Read offset for all tables. We are only interested in the unicode table is clear :-) First question : is there any chance that the FOP programmers could be one day interested by other tables ? You could answer : get a Unicode mapped font ! But... maybe if you have a look at the fonts I want to make available to the FOP font model, you will surely admit that I have a serious problem. Ready ? Click : http://www.yare.org/egypt/files/gardiner.zip You will notice that : Those fonts are... antique ;-) They were designed at a time when Unicode didn't exist : that's why "the" font needs 5 files. Those fonts *can't* be "Unicodified" until I can demonstrate to the Unicode Consortium that they can be by writing a "real world" application. I think you now better understand why I am *seriously* evaluating font models. So... second question : Any plan for TTFFile.writeXXX methods (vs. TTFFIle.readXXX ones) and/or PFMFile.unloadXXX methods (vs. PFMFile.load XXX ones) ? Having a full programmatic access to the Glyph and to the mappings would be a big step for me, but the big problem remains the font layout which needs a very specific processing. That's my part of the works : those interested by the problem can read the following, unfortunately very light document : http://www.catchpenny.org/codage/ Notice that Batik is able to generate SVG fonts definitions (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/fonts.html) for the afore mentioned font files. It demonstrates that Batik is less picky than FOP about mappings (but I still don't know if it is an advantage or not :-). Third question : are there any plans for supporting the SVG Font format ? Since I am a Java XML developper egyptologist (yes !), it would be quite easy for me to generate a hieroglyphic font engine that could allow me to demonstrate that the hieroglyphs integration in Unicode could go beyond the draft stage (http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n1944.pdf) but, frankly, it would be easier for me if I were backed-up by the FOP community. So... how can this community help me ? Cheers, p.b. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
