Use of Type1 fonts without metrics information

2013-04-29 Thread Luca Bellonda
Hi to all, is there any possibility in FOP 1.1 to use a Type1 font without a separate metrics information file, reading the info directly from the pfb font file? Thanks in advance.

Re: Use of Type1 fonts without metrics information

2013-04-29 Thread Luis Bernardo
Yes, see http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/fonts.html#register (the documentation is for trunk but works the same in 1.1). Use of metrics file has been deprecated and is not recommended. On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Luca Bellonda lbello...@gmail.com wrote: Hi to all, is there any

Re: Use of Type1 fonts without metrics information

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Bowditch
Hi Luca, Yes that is correct, FOP needs the PFB plus the AFM or PFM File in order to be able to process the Type 1 Font. The metrics XML File isn't needed though. What problem are you facing? Thanks, Chris On 29/04/2013 11:04, Luca Bellonda wrote: However, even when disabling the kerning

Re: Use of Type1 fonts without metrics information

2013-04-29 Thread Luca Bellonda
I was asking to solve a packaging problem. Some other fonts engines can deal with pfb files, if kerning and ligature info are not needed. Thank you. 2013/4/29 Chris Bowditch bowditch_ch...@hotmail.com Hi Luca, Yes that is correct, FOP needs the PFB plus the AFM or PFM File in order to be