I have attached a screenshot of a proof-of-concept app using TLF 1.0
and a custom font embedded with embedAsCFF='true'.
http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/secure/attachment/13470/Proof-of-concept+of+TLF+TextFlow+with+embedded+font+and+rotation..jpg

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Raju Bitter
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've created a JIRA here
> http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-10093 for the embedAsCFF
> attribute handling. I have that working already locally for
>
> <font name="LibertineRegular" src="LinBiolinum_r.otf" embedascff="true" />,
>
> and I can use rotated text with a TextFlow component. Text quality
> looks very good. But I have a few questions:
>
> 1) What should the name of the property be? I suppose embedascff would
> be the best choice.
>
> 2) How should multiple fonts be treated? Should the embedascff be set
> on the font tag, or the face tag (less optimal in my eyes)?
> <font name="myfont" embedascff="true">
>  <face src="myfont.otf"      style="plain"      />
>  <face src="myfont-bold.otf" style="bold"       />
>  <face src="myfont-ital.otf" style="italic"     />
>  <face src="myfont-bita.otf" style="bold italic"/>
> </font>
>
> 3) How is the usage of CFF fonts going to affect DHTML font embedding?
> Haven't investigated, yet.
>
> 4) Compiler implementation question:
> What is the org.openlaszlo.compiler.Canvas.mInfo element used for?
> Does the new property 'embedascff' need to be added to the mInfo
> element, e.g.
> File: org.openlaszlo.compiler.FontCompiler#compileFont
>
>    private void compileFont(String name, Element element) {
>        String style = element.getAttributeValue("style");
>        try {
>            String path = mEnv.resolveReference(element).getAbsolutePath();
>            String embedAsCFF = null;
>            if (mEnv.isCanvas()) {
>              Element info = new Element("resolve");
>              info.setAttribute("src", element.getAttributeValue("src"));
>              info.setAttribute("pathname",
> mEnv.resolveReference(element).toString());
>              embedAsCFF = element.getAttributeValue("embedascff");
>              if (embedAsCFF == null) {
>                  // Default value should be false to support embedded
> fonts in Flash TextField components.
>                  // See http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-9140
>                  embedAsCFF = "false";
>              }
>              info.setAttribute("embedascff", embedAsCFF);
>              mEnv.getCanvas().addInfo(info);
>            }
>
> Thanks,
> Raju
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Raju Bitter
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Great, thanks Henry. I appreciate your help!
>>
>> For now, I'll use these two wiki pages to collect the information I have:
>> http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Adobe_TextLayoutFramework
>> http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Enhanced_Text_API
>>
>> OL trunk includes TLF 1.0 at the moment. Flex 4.5 ships with TLF 2.0.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Henry Minsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I can advise, although any memory of the details is rapidly fading.
>>>
>>> The current implentation tried to make an exact drop-in class that works
>>> like the venerable TextField, so it could be swapped into LzTextSprite with
>>> no changes to LzTextSprite.
>>>
>>> The embedding of fonts was handled by some calls in the compiler to emit
>>> Flex resource directives. I could try to help out on modifying some of those
>>> to take different args.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Raju Bitter
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The current textfield implementation utilizing the TLF is limited in
>>>> how much of the FTE and TLE can be used. To have full TLF feature
>>>> support, OpenLaszlo would have to support OTF/CFF fonts - which the
>>>> platform does not do right now.
>>>>
>>>> Would Laszlo be interested in working with me on implementing full
>>>> FTE/TLE support in OpenLaszlo? The support I'd need would be
>>>>
>>>> 1) support for working on a spec for the new features (Amy?)
>>>> 2) a contact person with good knowledge of font handling in the AS3
>>>> runtime
>>>> 3) a QA resource for testing changes
>>>>
>>>> The ultimate goal is to have a the functionality for an RTE componen
>>>> in Flash using the TLF.
>>>>
>>>> - Raju
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Henry Minsky
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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