Vincent Hennebert wrote:
So if I were you, I wouldn't try to derive a bold typeface from a normal
one ;-) Like Jeremias said I would rather find a naturally bold font.
Are there even any fonts which both support a large subset of unicode
and have bold and italic variants? I went searching a while back and
found nothing.
The underlying problem here is that FOP's PDF renderer can't substitute
fonts when the specified font doesn't exist (the Java2D renderer does
this automatically as a side-effect of Java.) As a result of this
limitation, developers get forced to include some huge font like "Arial
Unicode MS", even though there are enough fonts on their operating
system that they don't need to use this font in any other application.
FOP could use bits of AWT to figure out how to substitute, the problem
as I understand it is that there is no trivial way to map a Font object
to a TTF file.
It's possible though... in a roundabout and non-portable way.
sun.font.FontManager.getFontPath(false); => "C:\\Windows\\Fonts"
From that we would then open every TTF file, which gives us the name
and style for each TTF file. Reversing that map would give us a mapping
from font family and style back to the TTF file which needs to be embedded.
It would cause a hell of a lot more than an extra 2 seconds startup
time, however... :-/
I did consider doing this at the XSL-FO level somehow, running it
through some Java code to automatically insert an <fo:inline> where
fonts need substituting.
Daniel
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