Hi, > Pierrick, > > from my point of view I would be interested in seeing the TTFReader and > PFMReader modified to consider several maps, beside just unicode. I think such > functionality would be very good for FOP.
Thanks for your support : it was my first question ;-) > Changes to layout that you mention in your other post will likely get a -1 > from me. I think they will distract from FOP's main objective of getting a > working layout that meets the requirements of the XSL-FO spec. I dont believe > the layout features you describe are in the XSL-FO spec. They aren't and thus your -1 is understandable. But... aren't the FOP developpers over-confident in font "native" capabilities ? Sorry, no offence there : I just want to point out the fact that font management by a JVM (the underlying OS in fact) can be... very poor. For example : can you get proper arabic PDF outputs from FOP ? As far as I've seen, there is no glyph substitution. can you get proper vocalized arabic from Mozilla on Windows 98 (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180112) ? As far as I've seen, they is no negative advance for vowels. ... In other terms, shall we *all* suffer from this poor font management by OSes ? Are Pango or the nearly defunct ;-( GNU Classpath font project (http://www.brawer.ch/software/fonts/) our only bottles in the sea ? What I'd want is the opportunity to have a full programmatic language for font layouts : I mean an open, non patented, if possible human-radable one :-) Well... did I say an XSL-like language that could be embeded in an SVG-font ? Sorry :-) At least, a way to elegantly (write-)access to Java generated GlyphVectors would be a minimum IMHO. But... I am maybe just paranoiac ? If so, don't hesistate to tell me : I am not a dangerous one :-) > You could always > write to the XSL working group to voice your requirements Of course and this is definitely my goal on the long term. I hope our discussions and your experience will be a good backup. Thank you for your intesrest. Best regards, p.b. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
