I've had good luck with converting fonts for use with FOP.
For OTF here's my plan
* Download, configure, make and install fontforge
* Put this script
|Open($||1||)|
|Generate($||1||:r + ||".ttf"||)|
into transfont.pe
* run fontforge -script transfont.pe <YourOpenType.opt>
* go to [TrueType fonts
<http://wiki.amirsys.com/confluence/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=AC&title=TrueType+fonts&linkCreation=true&fromPageId=4129580>]
On 01/18/2012 06:13 AM, Robert Eberhardt wrote:
> Hello Craig,
>
> as far as i know a pfb, a afm and a pfm file is needed. At least under fop
> 0.95. Did this change under fop 1.0.
>
> Best Regards Robert
>
>
>> On 01/18/2012 05:53 PM, Robert Eberhardt wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> A Customer asked me to use a font called "TradeGothic-BoldCondTwenty". I
>>> only found otf file downloads at the net for this font.
>>>
>>> In fop 0.95 I get the exception "OpenType fonts with CFF data are not
>>> supported, yet". So are ther any other possibilities to embed this font.
>>> excpet installing a pfb and a afm and a pfm file.
>>>
>> Use FontForge to convert it to a PFB and AFM pair (a Type 1 font). It
>> >usually works extremely well.
>> --
>> Craig Ringer
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