I am writing a program to display mathematics text produced from TEX inside Java 2D.
What I want to do is use (in Java) Type 1 fonts located in the JRE lib font directory. I can't rely on my users (students) to handle font installation correctly, after all; I just want to place fonts where Java can read them without having to depend on the user for anything. At the moment Java will accept only TrueType fonts there. Will this change in future releases? Or will I ever be able to read in Type 1 font files as TTF can now be read? Can someone explain to me why only TTF can be read from the lib font directory? Or read TTF files? I have tried converting my Type 1 fonts to TTF, but with only mixed success - although the new fonts are recognized by the font design program I use (Fontographer), several characters are *not* read successfully in Java displays. This makes the conversion undependable, to say the least. I am not an expert, but I have been told by one that many professional fonts are still available only in Type 1, so this would seem to be a serious problem for use of Java 2D in high quality graphics work ... =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
