On 13.02.2009 01:33:16 Maria2009 wrote: > > Hello, > > for my work I write multilingual texts, mostly in Western languages and > Japanese, but sometimes Trad. and Mod. Chinese or Korean is included as > well. I write my texts in xml and just started writing style sheets for PDF > output. Everything works fine on Mac OS X with oXygen and FOP 0.95 now. I am > not a computer specialist, but I hope to explain my problem well: > > Some .ttf fonts do not work, these are all fonts that cannot produce metric > files with TTFReader (I started with that, although now I do not use them > since I realised 0.95 does not need them). The problem is mentioned > frequently on this forum a well, a missing cmap table as the terminal says > (although it seems that the fonts do have a cmap table).
More precisely, FOP requires a "Unicode CMap table". Unfortunately, not all fonts have that. > I could deal with the problem in 2 ways: > > - Workaround: Avoid those fonts and use replacement fonts -- which is > difficult for few East Asian fonts. > - Solving the problem working on the fonts or FOP/TTFReader -- which is far > beyond my level of computer knowledge. > > So 2 questions: > 1) Are there any Korean or Chinese ttf fonts for Mac that are known to work? I don't know much about Korean and Chinese so I don't have any recommendations. Let's hope someone else can help here. > 2) This problem occurs in several variations between 2006 and 2008 on this > forum, has there been a solution in the meantime? No. So far nobody had enough of an itch to do something about it, I'm afraid. > > Thanks for listening, Sorry for not having a better answer for you. > Maria > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Mac-ttf-fonts----still-causing-trouble...-tp21988011p21988011.html > Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
