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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