Re: Severe : Exception. Cannot Load Font. No font URI's available.

2007-07-13 Thread J.Pietschmann
Chris Bowditch wrote: Although changing configuration files in a backwards incompatible way is not likely to be popular with the users! Given that not embedding fonts never really worked (except for fonts specifically installed using the Acrobat font manager), there is not really an incompatibi

Re: Severe : Exception. Cannot Load Font. No font URI's available.

2007-07-13 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Just some details on what is currently possible and what not (for PDF output): Type 1: embedded or referenced, WinAnsi only TrueType: - embedded subset, CID (default mode) - embedded WinAnsi (full font is embedded 1:1, no subset) - referenced WinAnsi (works, but is restricted to WinAnsi) -

Re: Severe : Exception. Cannot Load Font. No font URI's available.

2007-07-13 Thread Chris Bowditch
Andreas L Delmelle wrote: As far as I can judge, /if/ the names of embedded fonts forcibly need to be altered because they would be overridden by local fonts in the PDF viewer, then it could turn out to be pretty simple --for someone who knows what he's doing :/ Leave the font-family name

Re: Severe : Exception. Cannot Load Font. No font URI's available.

2007-07-12 Thread Andreas L Delmelle
On Jul 12, 2007, at 21:00, Loran Kary wrote: I would imagine that support for additional fonts beyond the Base14 would be pretty fundamental to PDF formatting and therefore if it isn't fully implemented there must be a pretty good reason. What I do seem to remember is that, when you use emb

Re: Severe : Exception. Cannot Load Font. No font URI's available.

2007-07-12 Thread Loran Kary
Thanks Andreas, I got a brief and vague response on the users group that left me wanting more information. Whether or not I could contribute to a potential solution, and that is a possibility, would depend on whether the work involved would be major or minor. So I am trying to get some

Re: Severe : Exception. Cannot Load Font. No font URI's available.

2007-07-12 Thread Andreas L Delmelle
On Jul 12, 2007, at 20:12, Loran Kary wrote: Hi Perhaps I am posting this question on the wrong list or perhaps my question has been asked and answered before. The latter, in a way... You asked the same question on fop-users a couple of days ago, where the response was that FOP currently d

Re: Severe : Exception. Cannot Load Font. No font URI's available.

2007-07-12 Thread Loran Kary
Perhaps I am posting this question on the wrong list or perhaps my question has been asked and answered before. But to state my question again, why is it not sufficient to supply FOP with a font metrics file and the font triplets in the configuration file? Why does it seem that FOP needs t