Hi Geert, One word of warning: Using ArialUnicodeMS gives you only plain characters, no bold, no italics. If you find a font containing all Unicode characters (esp. chinese, japanese, korean) in bold, please drop me a line.
Regards, Georg Datterl ------ Kontakt ------ Georg Datterl Geneon media solutions gmbh Gutenstetter Straße 8a 90449 Nürnberg HRB Nürnberg: 17193 Geschäftsführer: Yong-Harry Steiert Tel.: 0911/36 78 88 - 26 Fax: 0911/36 78 88 - 20 www.geneon.de Weitere Mitglieder der Willmy MediaGroup: IRS Integrated Realization Services GmbH: www.irs-nbg.de Willmy PrintMedia GmbH: www.willmy.de Willmy Consult & Content GmbH: www.willmycc.de -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Geert Bormans [mailto:ge...@gbormans.telenet.be] Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Mai 2009 12:06 An: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Betreff: Re: issues with TTFReader Sounds great Chris, thanks for your answer, I will give it a go and see what happens, Thanks for your warning as well, I will carefully check the license with microsoft At 11:12 8/05/2009, you wrote: >Geert Bormans wrote: > >Hi, > >>Hi, >>I need to deliver PDF for all European languages using FOP >>(preferably) I am testing on a windows machine, the eventual operation >>will be on a Sun Solaris 10 machine. >>And I have a bunch of questions >>1. Does anyone have a good recommendation for a font that covers all >>the characters I will need. Currently I think that Arial Unicode MS >>would suite best I appreciate suggestions for alternatives > >Arial Unicode MS does indeed have a good coverage of glyphs for most >languages. I can't immediately think of any alternatives. You may find >you are breaching the license of that font if you are planning on using >it on a Solaris system however, as I believe it is included with MS >Office. So technically you would need a license for MS Office for your >Solaris environment in order to be able to use the font there. > >>2. I am trying to use TTFReader to generate the XML font metrics. >>That doesn't seem to work > >In FOP v0.95 and later you don't need to generate Font metrics. In fact >it is recommended that you don't generate the metrics as FOP is far >more intelligent about how it reads the Font when not using metrics in >the latest versions. > >>This is my command-line >>java -cp >>D:\XML\XSLFO\FOP\fop-0.95\build\fop.jar;D:\XML\XSLFO\FOP\fop-0.95\lib\ >>avalon-framework-4.2.0.jar;D:\XML\XSLFO\FOP\fop-0.95\lib\commons-loggi >>ng-1.0.4.jar;D:\XML\XSLFO\FOP\fop-0.95\lib\commons-io-1.3.1.jar >>org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader C:\Windows\Fonts\ARIALUNI.TTF >>arialuni.xml This is the error message I get > >The error is a classpath error. Basically you are missing >xmlgraphics-commons-1.3.jar from the classpath above. > ><snip/> > >>3. Can I then use the .ttf and the font metrics on the solaris >>machine, or do I need to find an alternative font an do some similar >>actions again? > >As already mentioned you don't need the metrics file at all. Copying >the TTF to the Solaris machine will work but I believe you may be >breaching the terms of the MS Office license, although IANAL. > >>Are font metric files interchangeable? If someone generated the >>metrics file for me, could I just reuse it... If yes, is there >>somewhere a library of metrics files then? > >Yes you could but as I already explained they are no longer necessary. >So no, there is no library of metrics available. > >Chris > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
