Don't bother with XML font metrics files in 0.95 if you don't absolutely
need to. FOP 0.95 should handle Symbol and ZapfDingbats reasonably well
without a separate font metrics file if you configure them explicitely.

In the unlikely case, that it doesn't work without XML font metrics
files: yes, you'd have to replace it with "ZapfDingbatsEncoding".
Otherwise, FOP will work off the wrong encoding.



Off topic: I wonder how many more times we're going to mention that XML
font metrics are more and more unnecessary. When we started with those
it was a necessary evil to make custom fonts work. And now, everybody is
so used to do this tedious and annoying step that it's difficult to get
everyone back to a more intuitive approach, i.e. a simpler life. I can't
help but be amused about this. ;-) I guess we should consider adding a
big disclaimer to PFM/TTFReader stating that these tools will soon be
obsolete. Any other ideas?

On 09.01.2009 10:52:53 Ulrich Mayring wrote:
> In FOP 0.94 there is documentation with respect to Dingbats fonts, that the 
> PFMReader writes "UnknownEncoding" to the metrics file. This has to be 
> replaced with SymbolEncoding or ZapfdingbatsEncoding.
> 
> The PFMReader from FOP 0.95 now writes WinAnsiEncoding for the URWDingbats 
> font to the metrics file. Is this ok or do I also need to replace that with 
> ZapfdingbatsEncoding?
> 
> Ulrich



Jeremias Maerki


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