Did you come across "FreeFont"? http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/ I haven't used them but the site claims to support a big set of character. The fonts are GPL which could be a problem in a commercial environment. I can't tell what the effect of the GPL on fonts is. But at least they claim that FreeFont is free (whatever that means).
Improved font subsitution is something that is on the task list for future development. But you are free to use any name in the userconfig.xml file for naming the font. If you specify the same name in the userconfig.xml you use for the AWTRenderer, then you should be a step closer to what you need. I hope this helps. On 21.06.2005 01:57:36 Daniel Noll wrote: > I've just learned how to set up custom fonts, and more or less have most > international characters working by importing custom font metrics for > "Arial Unicode MS". > > However, I've looked around the office at a few other computers and it > seems that this font isn't standard... apparently now it's bundled with > Microsoft Office 2000, whereas it used to be free for download. > Presumably this means that it isn't safe to distribute anymore, and I > can't seem to find any other free fonts which include a large enough > slice of Unicode to satisfy us (although there are a couple around which > aren't _too_ expensive... there are a few which seem to prohibit > commercial use outright.) > > But anyway... > > The FOP AWT renderer (which we're using for TIFF generation) seems to > work with all fonts even if I don't specify a custom font. This is > because Java 1.5 supports font substitution, and thus makes use of all > the smaller fonts which might only support a few different scripts > each. And these smaller fonts _are_ available on all systems I can see. > > I was wondering whether people have a way to either make the PDF version > substitute fonts, or whether there is another trick I can use to > simulate the feature. > > Perhaps there is some function people have come up with for XSL-T which > can generate the correct font-family for any given block of text? If > such a thing existed, I could have the font-family attribute populated > correctly into the XSL-FO (and all I would need to do then is include > several dozen XML files for the metrics. ;-) ) Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
