On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 15:59 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Since a number of documents, especially the credits section in the > Release > Notes, use characters not found in the fop default base PostScript > fonts, > add a stylesheet for the fop generated documents to use the free > DejaVu and > GNU Unifont fonts which cover a much wider range of characters. >
It does not work for me. Without the patch, I notice in the credits
section the first name, which is composed of oriental characters, is
represented with # character. With the patch almost all characters are
repesented with #. I suspect I don't have those fonts installed. I have
some DejaVu fonts installed. There is unifont package which is not
currently installed stating:
This package is a convenient way to install both the PCF bitmap
version and the
scalable TrueType outline version of GNU Unifont. It also installs a
copy of
unifont.hex and related files in /usr/share/unifont.
GNU Unifont was designed to render something besides an empty box for
each
visible Unicode character in the Basic Multilingual Plane (Plane 0).
Plane 0
contains most of the world's modern writing scripts. This font looks
best at
12pt.
Complex fonts (such as Indic or Semitic scripts, where letters change
shape
depending on their position in a word, or such as Mongolian, which is
written
vertically) will not render perfectly. The philosophy behind this
font, though,
is that anything meaningful is better than an empty box for a unknown
glyph.
Homepage: http://unifoundry.com
Assuming these fonts will correct the situation, we will be facing a
situation where the pdf is totally unreadable if the fonts are not
installed and there is probably no way for the average user to find out
why.
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