Jeremias Maerki <dev <at> jeremias-maerki.ch> writes:

> "Embedding" means that the font is included in the PDF file. Otherwise,
> the font is only referenced and is required to be present on the viewer
> or printer. If it's not present on the receiving side, the document
> can't print correctly. If you want to embed all fonts, you have to
> create font metric files using PFMReader or TTFReader for each one and
> create the correct font triples in the configuration file. As soon as
> you specify a embed-file attribute (embed-url in 0.91 and later), the
> font will be embedded in the generated file. ATM, there is no easy way.
> I may get easier later this year when we have an improved font subsystem
> but ATM, it's a lot of manual work.

Thanks for this explanation! I will try and do this, although the "creating font
metric files" bit sounds rather difficult. I'll give it my best shot!

> If that doesn't help you on your way, please tell us exactly what on the
> fonts.html page is unclear to you.

That's fine: it makes sense now. I just wondered whether it was possible to do
it automatically for all fonts used by fop when creating the pdf. No problem!

Matt


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