On 19/01/2012 02:39, Craig Ringer wrote:
Hi Craig,
On 19/01/12 01:10, Chris Bowditch wrote:
On 18/01/2012 13:13, Robert Eberhardt wrote:
Hello Craig,
Hi Robert,
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.
FOP v1.0 does not introduce support for OTF CFF glyphs. This is a
feature we would like too! You mwill need to work around the
limitation using an approach like Craig suggested.
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell fop can also only handle simple
1-byte encoding fonts for PostScript output. You might be OK with this,
but if you need broad charset support like me you'll be stuffed.
That's true of FOP trunk, but we have developed advanced font support
for Postscript in a branch named TTFinPostscript, which we've
successfully used to generate Chinese and Thai output. If you checkout
and compile the branch you can use the feature too. Although I believe
there are a few bugs which are fixed by a (as yet unapplied) patch in
Bugzilla. So if you run into a bug using the branch you will need to
apply the patch.
I currently get to pick between:
- Abbreviated fonts without half the symbols I need that *do* work with
PostScript output; or
- Fonts that don't work with PostScript output but do contain all the
symbols I need
I'd love to use direct PDF instead of PostScript output, but I'm being
bitten by the inability to de-duplicate embedded subsets when PDFs are
inserted using fop-pdf-image. Distiller can de-duplicate subsets when
converting PostScript to PDF, so using fop's PostScript output lets me
work around that fop-pdf-image limitation. Or at least it would, if only
I could use the fonts I need with PS output...
I'm working on implementing font subset merging in fop-pdf-image, or at
least font re-embedding, but it's quite complicated to do and will take
time, esp as I have to get this project out the door and working ASAP so
I can't put too much time into that right now. I seem to be hitting
another limitation whenever I find a workaround for one, though.
We've discussed this before. Mehdi sent Jeremias a patch offlist to
partially resolve this, but its only for fonts within the same input
PDF. If you have lots of smaller PDFs then the fonts won't be
de-duplicated. If you do get round to developing a more advanced
de-duplication then we'd love to see a patch :-) If you need Mehdi's
patch then feel free to yell and I'm sure Mehdi will happily post it here.
This one seems insoluible: If fop can't use 2-byte encoded fonts in PS
output, and can't dedupe subset fonts in PDF output, I'm stuck.
Thanks,
Chris
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Craig Ringer
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