No. None are used. Font files are opened and read as a binary data stream
using standard java.io functionality.

G.

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Dieter <[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks. FOP is 100% Java without native bindings, right? I was
> wondering if in the Font loading process and creation of
> org.apache.fop.fonts.Font any native methods from the JRE are used?
>
> Cheers,
> Dieter
>
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Glenn Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> > FOP reads native fonts directly, but does not create java.awt.Font as a
> > result; rather, it creates instances of org.apache.fop.fonts.Font, an
> > instance of which internally holds a reference to an object implementing
> > org.apache.fop.fonts.FontMetrics, the latter holding most of the
> information
> > parsed from the native font file.
> >
> > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Dieter <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Java AWT has the Font class and a couple of native ties to load fonts
> >> and generate a Font object. I wonder if XMLGraphics or FOP has its own
> >> infrastructure for reading Fonts (maybe without those native ties)
> >> that results in the same Font object.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Dieter
> >>
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