Re: [CODE4LIB] Unicode font for PDF generation?
There are no pan Unicode fonts. Last one I saw was for Unicode 2.0 There is a limit to the number of glyphs a font can contain. It is possible to create a subset of unicode and place it in a single font, but you need to be able to identify your current and future character requirements. But not sure why you need a single font, unless your xml to pdf conversion can't process stylesheets. Andrew On Saturday, 17 March 2012, Mark Redar mark.re...@ucop.edu wrote: Hi All, We're having some fun with unicode characters in PDF generation. We have a process that automatically generates a pdf from XML input. The tool stack doesn't support multiple fonts for displaying different codepoints so we need a good pan-unicode font to bundle with the pdfs. Currently, we use the DejaVu font family for creating the pdfs. This has good coverage for latin cyrillic characters but has no CJK (chinese-japanese-korean) coverage. We've looked into licensing a commercial fonts, but for web server use these require annual licensing fees that are substantial (in the thousands of $). A number of our source documents contain CJK characters and some contributors have noticed the lack of support for these characters. Does anyone know of a good pan-unicode free font that includes CJK codepoints that looks good? Gnu unifont has the coverage, but it is not the best looking font. Barring that, we're thinking of rolling our own pan-unicode font. There are good open source fonts for portions of the unicode character sets. We're hoping to find some way to take a number of open source fonts and combine them into one large pan-unicode font. Does anyone have experience with font authoring and merging different fonts? It looks as though FontForge can merge fonts, but it's not clear how to deal with overlapping codepoints in the merged fonts. Thanks, Mark -- Andrew Cunningham Senior Project Manager, Research and Development Vicnet State Library of Victoria Australia andr...@vicnet.net.au lang.supp...@gmail.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Unicode font for PDF generation?
A couple of additional thoughts: • The most complete cjk font projects require 2 fonts to handle all cjk characters • There are language specific glyph variations between chinese and japanese, so ideal situation is to use diffetent fonts tailored for each On Saturday, 17 March 2012, Mark Redar mark.re...@ucop.edu wrote: Hi All, We're having some fun with unicode characters in PDF generation. We have a process that automatically generates a pdf from XML input. The tool stack doesn't support multiple fonts for displaying different codepoints so we need a good pan-unicode font to bundle with the pdfs. Currently, we use the DejaVu font family for creating the pdfs. This has good coverage for latin cyrillic characters but has no CJK (chinese-japanese-korean) coverage. We've looked into licensing a commercial fonts, but for web server use these require annual licensing fees that are substantial (in the thousands of $). A number of our source documents contain CJK characters and some contributors have noticed the lack of support for these characters. Does anyone know of a good pan-unicode free font that includes CJK codepoints that looks good? Gnu unifont has the coverage, but it is not the best looking font. Barring that, we're thinking of rolling our own pan-unicode font. There are good open source fonts for portions of the unicode character sets. We're hoping to find some way to take a number of open source fonts and combine them into one large pan-unicode font. Does anyone have experience with font authoring and merging different fonts? It looks as though FontForge can merge fonts, but it's not clear how to deal with overlapping codepoints in the merged fonts. Thanks, Mark -- Andrew Cunningham Senior Project Manager, Research and Development Vicnet State Library of Victoria Australia andr...@vicnet.net.au lang.supp...@gmail.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Unicode font for PDF generation?
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Mark Redar mark.re...@ucop.edu wrote: Currently, we use the DejaVu font family for creating the pdfs. This has good coverage for latin cyrillic characters but has no CJK (chinese-japanese-korean) coverage. We've looked into licensing a commercial fonts, but for web server use these require annual licensing fees that are substantial (in the thousands of $). A number of our source documents contain CJK characters and some contributors have noticed the lack of support for these characters. If you're looking for CJK support in a FLOSS font, I've heard the best option in terms of CJK coverage are the WenQuanYi [0] fonts, which have full coverage (if I recall correctly). As Andrew suggests, you can combine a number of fonts as well. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WenQuanYi Mark
Re: [CODE4LIB] Unicode font for PDF generation?
For additional CJKV fonts look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CJK_fonts -- Andrew Cunningham Senior Project Manager, Research and Development Vicnet State Library of Victoria Australia andr...@vicnet.net.au lang.supp...@gmail.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Learning Microsoft SQL
I generally find the w3schools stuff a pretty good starting point to help wrap my head around something I don't know: I've used w3schools a fair bit in the past too, as they rank pretty highly in Google, but have recently been made aware of advice that they aren't necessarily to be relied on, e.g. http://w3fools.com/ David
