I think we are taking the only reasonable route available w.r.t. complex
script support, namely reading the OTF font directly to extract and use the
advanced typographic tables. The same mechanisms can be used for the TTF AAT
tables as well.
The inquiry that started this thread seems most interest
I agree, native libraries would be a pain. BTW, interested parties could
take a look at Apache FontBox's CFF support. That's part of Apache
PDFBox. Maybe that could be used or adapted.
On 19.01.2011 11:59:18 Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 19/01/11 16:35, Simon Pepping wrote:
> > I take this discussion t
On 19/01/11 16:35, Simon Pepping wrote:
> I take this discussion to express my worries that FOP needs to create
> its own support for fonts, among which Open Type Fonts. FOP's core
> task is the layout and printing of FO files. If FOP could rely on good
> font libraries, that would make our code ba
Hi Simon,
The FOP font library doesn't actually render or paint any fonts, it
does 1 of 2 things. Either it a) creates a subset of the font, and
streams the subset (as a byte stream) to the PDF/PS document or b) it
streams the whole font to the document (I think this is what is done
for AFP, I don
