Re: Problem regarding font substitution

2011-02-02 Thread mehdi houshmand
Hi Peder, What OS are you using? I just checked in Windows 7, and it's not obvious using the file system GUI, but there Arial is split up into arial.ttf, ariblk.ttf, ariali.ttf, arialbd.ttf and arialbi.ttf. However, when going into Windows\Fonts, it does appear to be a single file. In the Ubuntu

Re: Problem regarding font substitution

2011-02-02 Thread Peder
Hi Mehdi, I'm running one version on MacOS and another on linux, both having trouble with the arialunicodeMS. Mind you, I'm using the unicode variant of the regular arial font. This font has many more glyphs to display than the regular Arial font. I'm using FOP1.0 on both OS. Best regards,

Re: Problem regarding font substitution

2011-02-02 Thread Jeremias Maerki
There are two fonts: arial*.ttf and arialuni.ttf. The latter has more glyphs but only comes in one style. Word can display bold and italic for ArialUni because it tells Windows to synthesize the derived styles. We could theoretically do this, too, for PDF output, but that is not currently

Re: Problem regarding font substitution

2011-02-02 Thread mehdi houshmand
I concur with Jeremias, if you wish to view fonts so you can better diagnose these issues yourself a good tool is fontforge (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/) which allows you to analyse individual glyphs. Also as part of the same package is a program called showttf which I've found invaluable in

Re: Problem regarding font substitution

2011-02-02 Thread Peder
Hi Jeremias, Well, it helps partially. When I come across words with characters not in the standard font, the word gets rendered in the second (fall-back) font. The only side-effect is that bold and/or italic is ignored;-( Anyway, thanks for the clarification. Best regards, Peder On 2 feb

Re: Problem regarding font substitution

2011-02-02 Thread Peder
But the problem really springs from the fact that FOP doesn't support opentype fonts. Are there any plans to support opentype fonts in FOP? Best regards, Peder On 2 feb 2011, at 09:51, Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 02.02.2011 09:41:12 Peder wrote: Hi Jeremias, What can be done when I have

RE: Problem regarding font substitution

2011-02-02 Thread Eric Douglas
making the lines thicker. -Original Message- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:d...@jeremias-maerki.ch] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 3:31 AM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: Problem regarding font substitution There are two fonts: arial*.ttf and arialuni.ttf. The latter

Re: Problem regarding font substitution

2011-02-02 Thread Glenn Adams
OTF are already supported. However, some features of OTF are not supported. Regards, Glenn On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Peder peet@gmail.com wrote: But the problem really springs from the fact that FOP doesn't support opentype fonts. Are there any plans to support opentype fonts in

RE: Problem regarding font substitution

2011-02-01 Thread Eric Douglas
You're referencing normal and bold triplets with one font file name. They're normally separate files. From: Peder [mailto:peet@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:26 AM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Problem regarding font

Re: Problem regarding font substitution

2011-02-01 Thread Peet Kes
Hi Eric, But I only have one truetrype file for the ArialUnicodeMS font I only have ARIALUNI.TTF and when I use this font in Word I can turn on Bold and Italic. What do I have to do to get this working? Best regards, Peder 2011/2/1 Eric Douglas edoug...@blockhouse.com You're referencing