No, I don't think the problem has anything to do with licensing... That was just my stream-of-consciousness debugging-in-email writing style.
It's not a licensing problem. It's not a particular font vendor. It's not all opentype fonts. As far as I can tell, it's completely random. Oh, I seriously doubt it is, but I cannot find anything that provides rhyme or reason to the problem. Someone with a much better understanding of font technologies than I could probably be of more help. Paulo? --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff.com import legalese.Disclaimer; Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null; > -----Original Message----- > From: qqzx2kp [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 5:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Using OpenType font with > IDENTITY_Hdoesn'twork > > > Hi, > > By "this type", I didn't mean OpenType, rather some unknown > characteristic that makes it not work in iText. If I knew how > to tell people what sort of fonts to avoid (without having to > write a program using iText) it would go a long way to > solving my problem. > > Are you saying that the problem is with the metadata that > says if the font is embeddable (since the use of IDENTITY-H > requires the embedding of a subset)? This might be something > I could follow up - though I thought iText gave an error if > you try to do embedding that isn't allowed. > > I've been toying with the idea of telling people to avoid > OpenType and stick to TrueType, but I'm loathe to do this > without solid evidence. Does anyone out there have a reason > why this would be justifiable (or not)? > > Thanks for your responses, Mark. > ================ > > > > > A more logical conclusion would be that iText doesn't support this > > type of font. > > Only it does support that type of font. See, look. Our app > renders PDF via iText... I'll pick an open type font from my > system, throw some non-ascii characters in, and... Err... > Crap... But but... > > Okay, some OT fonts work fine, some don't. Ah! "Lucida Sans", the > first font I tried, has a blank "font embeddability" column > in the win7 view of c:/windows/fonts. Monotype Corsiva > Italic on the other hand, the one that worked, has the word > "installable" instead. The only other font on my system with > no font embeddability entry is... "Arial". Ouch. > But Arial works given some non-ascii text. Bah! > > So much for that theory. "Lucida Sans" came up empty, but > "Lucida Sans Unicode" was fine... And both are OpenType fonts > from the same company. > > After further experimentation, I see no rhyme or reason here. > Some OT fonts are fine. Some aren't. > > --Mark Storer > Senior Software Engineer > Cardiff.com > > import legalese.Disclaimer; > Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null; > > -- > View this message in context: > http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/Using-OpenType-font -with-IDENTITY-H-doesn-t-work-tp3003131p3008030.html > Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North > America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for > consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - > $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with > Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered > with a reference to the iText book: > http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list > before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
