Thanks Manuel. I understand the difference now. Let me rephrase my question.
I'm using Arial font in FOP and when I render it to PDF with a specific font type and size (bold, size 12 pt) and I do the same with Microsoft word and print both. It is exact same line and same font etc. The Microsoft version of it is longer (when I overlay and compare) than the FOP version even though both are using the same fonts? Somehow the spacing of the characters/words seems to be different in FOP than with word. Is this a known issue? Can this be corrected? This is causing some inconsistency between 2 formats namely word and PDF. Please help. Thank you. Prakash --- Manuel Mall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 04:46 am, Prakash R wrote: > > I'm using Arial font with FOP. I installed the > fonts > > by following the step to install custom fonts from > TTF > > on the FOP website using the TTFReader and adding > > entries in userconfig.xml. > > > > When I generate a PDF which uses the Arial font, > the > > width of characters are different for uppercase > and > > lowercase. The lowercase being lesser width. Is > there > > anyway I can set any property so that the > lowercase > > characters are also the same width as the > uppercase > > characters? > > > Arial is a so called proportional font. Not only > have lowercase letters > different widths to uppercase letters but even > within the same case > letters will have different widths, e.g. i will have > a different width > to m and W is different in width to J. > > If a fixed character width is important to your > layout you need to use a > fixed width (= non proportional) font. For example > Courier. > > > Thank you. > > Prakash > > > Manuel > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
