[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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But is it possible to use any other fonts than Helvetica (f.x. Times New
Roman)
without having to define entries in userconfig.xml ?
Yes, there are 14 standard fonts that come with FOP out of the box:
Helvetica normal, bold, italic, bold+italic
Times normal, bold, italic, bold+italic
Courier normal, bold, italic, bold+italic
Symbol normal
Zapfdingbats normal
Yes, sorry ... I wasn't very specific. The issue is that I've specified
Times (as
shown in XSL-FO sample above) as font-family. Now some of my cells have
either
bold or italic font face. This makes the text in the cells, become of
font-family
Helvetica (I now realizes that it falls back to default font) but it
seems that
text location is not done using Helvetica fontmetrics - at least the
text in the
bold/italic cells are misplaced, so that the text overlaps the
cell-border - the
text is pushed a bit right as if the text location is based in the font
being
regular Times New Roman, but in fact FOP inserts Helvetica bold (but
that's a guess
on my behalf).
curious. Does the output look okay in the PDF? Are the strange effects
observed only when you you the print option to send output to the printer
directly from FOP?
The Print Renderer in FOP is AWT based and works very differently from the PDF
and Postscript renderers in FOP. If you need to print I suggest you create a
postscript file and send that to the Printer.
So short question is, can I use any other fonts than Helvetica without
having to
create custom config ??
Yes, see above list.
If not, that brings me to a licensing issue - I assume that I can't
(without violating)
licenses of Monotype redistribute the TTF files (and generated metrics
files) for Times
New Roman?
IANAL, but I dont think you can redistribute a TTF file, unless the license
explicitly says you can.
But if my application/FOP generates/uses these files on the platform on
which it is
installed - does this violate licenses ?
I think you would be okay to distribute documents created with the licensed
fonts, so long as you didnt embed the font definition in the PDF. Embedding is
another option controlled via the userconfig.xml.
Chris
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