hi, I had a similar issue and this is how is solved it : 1. I used a tool called pfaedit (now called fontforge). Try this in google and you might find it. 2. I then converted all my licensed opent type/ postscript fonts from adobe into true type fonts using pfaedit. If you have a folder full of postscript fonts then you can use this script to convert all into truetype
file = $firstfont while ( file != "" ) Open(file) Generate($fontname + ".ttf") file = $nextfont endloop 3. place all the true type fonts into your /jre/lib/fonts/ 4. batik will now be able to use these fonts. PS : regarding the bold, italic issues, adobe ILL specifies something like font-family="Aachen-Bold", but batik can only see if it is font-family="Aachen" font-weight="bold". Hope this helps ! Ananth On Mon, 3 May 2004, Ruth, Brice wrote: > I've been doing some googling and found that supposedly, JDK 1.4 > supports OpenType fonts. I have an SVG file with CEF fonts exported from > Ilustrator CS (the most recent version of Illustrator) and I'm > desperately trying to figure out how to get Batik to render the fonts > properly, without success so far. My understanding is that the CEF fonts > are merely a wrapper of the original font, which in my case is an > OpenType font (actually, a few). Now, they're all pretty basic fonts at > this point - nothing extravagant, mainly variations of Helvetica, if I'm > not mistaken. I've taken the OTF files and placed them in my JDK's > jre/lib/fonts directory - and this has had no noticeable effect on how > batik works, the fonts still don't appear to render correctly (bold, > light, etc.). I'm not sure if the fonts are being picked up because the > JDK isn't able to understand the OTF files, or if the fonts need to be > referenced differently than they are, in the Illustrator generated SVG. > > If I could figure out a way of converting the OTF file to a True Type > font, I'd be happy to use Batik's ttf2svg converter, but I've found > nothing of the sort available (short of FontLab, which runs about > $500+). > > Has anyone else struggled with this? I really need to be able to > accurately render files created in Illustrator CS, somehow, someway. > > Any advice is appreciated! > > Respectfully, > > Brice D. Ruth > Sr. IT Analyst > Fiskars Brands, Inc. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
