On 02.01.2008 11:54:26 Justus-bulk wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use the STIX fonts with FOP and am running into issues. > > Ideally, the OpenType format used by the STIX fonts were supported > directly by FOP, but I understand this is work in progress.
It's not really "work in progress" as nobody's currently working on it, AFAIK. OpenType fonts with CFF glyphs simply haven't been implemented, yet. Patches are always welcome. > (To any FOP developers out there: When might we have this?) Whenever someone has a bad enough itch and free time to implement the missing functionality. > So I tried converting the fonts to TrueType using fontforge. This > appeared to work, with no significant (I think) error messages in the > process. Fontforge successfully reads and displays converted fonts. > > FOP runs without any complaints, and according to pdffonts the STIX > fonts are properly embedded in the PDF. However, the PDF appears to be > invalid: Ghostscript stops rendering the page at the first STIX > character; xpdf continues to render but shows nothing (white space) in > place of the STIX characters. The metrics and encoding seem ok though; > I can copy and paste the invisible characters successfully from xpdf > into emacs. > > What might be the problem? No idea. I've never played with font converters. FontForge may simply have messed up the font. > Then I tried converting the fonts to Type1. This works all the way, > except that a Type1 font can apparently only encode 256 characters at > a time, and indeed, some special characters (Euro symbol) are missing > in the otherwise impeccable PDF. > > I could split up the STIX fonts and implement XSLT wizardry to help > FOP find all the glyphs, but this would involve some bending over > backwards and jumping through hoops, so I thought I'd ask here if > anybody might have some further insights concerning the TrueType > weirdness. You could also find out if there's another similar looking font that fulfills your requirements. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
