Hi Daniel,
Daniel Rosenberg wrote:
> Yes,
>
> but isn't this characteristics of 'differently sized' fonts there to
> optimize readability and aesthetics of a font when typesetted in
> different sizes?
You’re right. Those numbers are indeed sizes and correspond to an
optimal point size at which the font looks best. Even if, being
described in a vectorial format, they can be scaled to any size.
I don’t think the way you did will work, although that would be the most
desirable one. I believe the only way is to “cheat” by hard-coding the
font size in the family name:
<font kerning="yes" metrics-file="lmr12.xml" embed-file="lmr12.pfb">
<font-triplet name="LMRoman-12" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>
In your FO document, you would change the font family in addition to
changing the font size:
<fo:block font-family="LMRoman-12" font-size="12pt"...
That may be an easy change depending on the way you generate your FO
files.
HTH,
Vincent
> Scaling works fine, but I guess the result will be
> even better if all availabe fonts are utilized?
>
> / Daniel
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 09:25 +0100, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
>> I think you've got that wrong. The numbers behind the font names are not
>> sizes. I don't know the English word for the typography term, but in
>> this font family: the lower the number, the wider the individual
>> characters and the character spacing.
>>
>> Type 1 fonts are scalable, so you don't need different fonts for
>> different sizes.
>>
>> Jeremias Maerki
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25.11.2007 02:17:30 Daniel Rosenberg wrote:
>>> Hi, I have another question. The Latin Modern fonts have different
>>> versions of different sizes of fonts. Can I utilize this in my
>>> generated PDF document?
>>>
>>> For example, I'd like to include something like
>>>
>>> <font metrics-file="type1/public/lm/lmr10.xml" kerning="yes"
>>> embed-file="type1/public/lm/lmr10.pfb">
>>> <font-triplet name="LMRoman" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
>>> </font>
>>> <font metrics-file="type1/public/lm/lmr12.xml" kerning="yes"
>>> embed-file="type1/public/lm/lmr12.pfb">
>>> <font-triplet name="LMRoman" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
>>> </font>
>>> <font metrics-file="type1/public/lm/lmr17.xml" kerning="yes"
>>> embed-file="type1/public/lm/lmr17.pfb">
>>> <font-triplet name="LMRoman" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
>>> </font>
>>>
>>> in my userconfig.xml and then (in some way) switch between the
>>> differently sized fonts.
>>>
>>> / Daniel
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