Sounds great Chris,
thanks for your answer,
I will give it a go and see what happens,
Thanks for your warning as well, I will carefully check the license
with microsoft
At 11:12 8/05/2009, you wrote:
Geert Bormans wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
I need to deliver PDF for all European languages using FOP (preferably)
I am testing on a windows machine, the eventual operation will be
on a Sun Solaris 10 machine.
And I have a bunch of questions
1. Does anyone have a good recommendation for a font that covers
all the characters I will need. Currently I think that Arial
Unicode MS would suite best
I appreciate suggestions for alternatives
Arial Unicode MS does indeed have a good coverage of glyphs for most
languages. I can't immediately think of any alternatives. You may
find you are breaching the license of that font if you are planning
on using it on a Solaris system however, as I believe it is included
with MS Office. So technically you would need a license for MS
Office for your Solaris environment in order to be able to use the font there.
2. I am trying to use TTFReader to generate the XML font metrics.
That doesn't seem to work
In FOP v0.95 and later you don't need to generate Font metrics. In
fact it is recommended that you don't generate the metrics as FOP is
far more intelligent about how it reads the Font when not using
metrics in the latest versions.
This is my command-line
java -cp
D:\XML\XSLFO\FOP\fop-0.95\build\fop.jar;D:\XML\XSLFO\FOP\fop-0.95\lib\avalon-framework-4.2.0.jar;D:\XML\XSLFO\FOP\fop-0.95\lib\commons-logging-1.0.4.jar;D:\XML\XSLFO\FOP\fop-0.95\lib\commons-io-1.3.1.jar
org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader C:\Windows\Fonts\ARIALUNI.TTF arialuni.xml
This is the error message I get
The error is a classpath error. Basically you are missing
xmlgraphics-commons-1.3.jar from the classpath above.
<snip/>
3. Can I then use the .ttf and the font metrics on the solaris
machine, or do I need to find an alternative font an do some
similar actions again?
As already mentioned you don't need the metrics file at all. Copying
the TTF to the Solaris machine will work but I believe you may be
breaching the terms of the MS Office license, although IANAL.
Are font metric files interchangeable? If someone generated the
metrics file for me, could I just reuse it... If yes, is there
somewhere a library of metrics files then?
Yes you could but as I already explained they are no longer
necessary. So no, there is no library of metrics available.
Chris
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