On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 15:33 -0700, Brent Smith wrote: > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Brent Smith"> > > > >>What is the licensing policy for the said font and where can I find it? > >>This is something I've been meaning to do, but haven't got around to yet. > >>Right now it uses the default fonts for PDF, which makes the PDF size > >>considerably smaller. > > > > > > Should be shipped in any modern distribution. > > > > http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ > > > > - Jeff > > > > Here is my attempt at this: > > http://www.gnome.org/~bmsmith/system-admin-guide-bitstream.pdf > > There are a number of problems I see: > 1) There is no italic serif font shipped by bitstream. > 2) Due to a limitation of FOP, only glyphs used in the truetype font are > embedded in the PDF (no codepage information). Therefore searching, > indexing and cut-n-paste do not work properly[1]. > > I got around 2) by specifying the ansi encoding when generating the font > metrics which seems to work ok, but 1) is still a blocker. > > Do you know why there is no italic serif font? > > [1]http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.20.5/fonts.html#embedding
You might want to consider using the DejaVu font collection, it's a Bitstream Vera derivative that includes a broader range of characters. I initially decided to use it in my own printed stuff instead of Bitstream Vera because it comes with an italic serif font and Bitstream doesnt. http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page It's broader character support makes it capable of handling some foreign languages better than Bitstream Vera, which is another good reason to use it for documentation: http://oskuro.net/blog/2006/03/02/ It's also distributed under an open license, but I'm not sure how widely distributed it is at this point. -- Ryan Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
