Hi, I have problems generating PDF/A. The questions are at the end. I've had an intense struggle with fonts.
1. Generating a plain PDF is no problem. 2. Add -pdfprofile PDF/A-1b and FOP tells you: /all fonts, even the base 14 fonts, have to be embedded! Offending font: /Helvetica/ (the exclamation mark means it yells) 3. Why is there a slash in the font name in the exception message? Is it significant? 4. The exception and the doco seem to say, go get yourself the 14 base fonts and have them embedded. 5. I don't want to license the original fonts so I write a fop.config with the fonts I wish to use (Liberation) + a set of substitution elements, substituting Helvetica, Times (and Times-Roman), Courier to the corresponding Liberation. 6. No improvement, FOP still yells about embedding the base 14 fonts. 7. Gradually I discover that embedding the base 14 fonts may not be necessary at all. A more accurate requirement is: You have to embed whatever fonts are found in your FO file. 8. Originally the FO file contained generic font names like "serif" and "sans-serif". I tried to configure substitutions for them, but no luck. 9. After making sure the FO only contains Liberation fonts everything JUST WORKS. Even though I have spent too many hours on this, I still don't have the big picture. I wish somebody could tell the story from beginning to end. The FOP documentation is bits and pieces. It's a pity because FOP itself is awesome. Questions: -- Given a FO file, is there any way to configure FOP to substitute fonts for those defined in the FO? -- If the FO contains generic names like "serif" how does FOP select a specific font? Is it possible to configure substitutions for them? -- What is font substitution in the FOP config used for? Does it have any effect? /Hakan -- View this message in context: http://apache-fop.1065347.n5.nabble.com/Fonts-and-PDF-A-An-epic-struggle-tp38827.html Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
