Thank you for the quick answer.
I did not know about the FOrayFont project. One of the entries on the plan for
the project is:
"Support TrueType Fonts in Macintosh format"
So there is some focus on the issue.
The application I am working on is a commercial product, and I do not think our
customers are willing/able to obtain windows TrueType fonts, for use in our
application :-(
I think I will follow the FOrayFont project closely, and try to convince my
boss that at the moment, we will have to settle with the build-in fonts in PDF.
- Torben
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
I've never had my fingers on a Mac-specific TrueType font. And I can't
remember this ever coming up, yet. If the Mac fonts are really a little
different, I guess the TrueType parser should be extended to handle this
subformat, too. That's probably the cleanest approach. However, since
work is still ongoing to use FOrayFont instead of our own font library
(actually FOrayFont is a spin-off off FOP code), things may get a little
more complicated. But I assume it should be relatively simple to port
the changes from FOP to FOrayFont when necessary.
The alternative you have is to simply get the Windows version of your
TrueType fonts and use them.
On 17.02.2006 10:41:06 Torben Lauritzen wrote:
Hi.
I am using version 0.91 beta.
I am trying to register OS fonts with FOP, in order to embed them in PDF documents. On MS windows this works fine, but on MacOSX almost all of the .ttf-fonts cannot be read
by the org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader. I get an unsupported format error, fx:
- Number of glyphs in font: 841
- 2 cmap tables
- Unicode cmap table not present
- Unsupported format: Aborting
And the reader returns null. As far as I know, the .ttf format on Mac is not exactly the same as on windows, so the output is fairly fair, but not being able to read .ttf
files on other platforms kind of disables the platform transparency advantage of Java.
And then to the question:
Does anyone know a workaround - fx a Java converter from Mac .ttf to windows
.ttf or do I have to write my own MacTTFReader?
Jeremias Maerki
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