On 27.11.2007 15:24:44 Daniel Rosenberg wrote: > Ok, so this is perhaps rather uncommon. I guess the reason would be to > improve readability and aesthetics -- it should be easy to read the > text and it should look as good as possible. > > I do not see the way the operating system is involved, at least not if > the fonts are embedded.
I meant it this way: Install the Latin Modern fonts in your operating system. Does a word processor then automatically choose the right variant depending on the font size? Not really. It actually shows you each font separately in the font list because it gets all the fonts from the operating system. Maybe some extremely sophisticated desktop publishing application might bring its own font subsystem that would let you do something like that, but not without a lot of manual configuration, because the embedded information on how to interpret the individual font files is most likely insufficient for Type 1 and TrueType fonts. > If the feature is supported by the PDF > standard it should be supported by the PDF reader. Am i right? But > perhaps there could be problems if the fonts are not embedded? PDF doesn't directly support it but it the job of the producing application to select the font to use for each character. So if FOP had this functionality it could be made to work. But you could run into problems if the fonts were not embedded, yes. Look, if you absolutely want this feature, you'll have to look into it yourself and submit a patch. Otherwise, you simply have to use the work-around shown earlier. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
