On 2011-03-22 12:35, Italo Vignoli wrote: > On 03/21/2011 11:44 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: > >> As pointed out, it may not be possible to package fonts in the document >> file because of the Open Document standard, although I would have though >> it would have been flexible enough to enable packaging of future items, >> otherwise it would be limiting to development and future inclusion of >> say media or as of yet unpopularised formats. > > Fonts used for editing documents must be installed at operating system > level (Windows, MacOS, Linux) and therefore they would not be > available even if embedded in documents. In addition fonts have > different metrics on different operating systems. This must be why I had to delete Arial from my mac and replace it with Arial from my Suse.
What about with OOO2 where fonts were available for OOO exclusively http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ#How_do_I_add_fonts_to_OpenOffice.org_2_exclusively Fonts were installed in ~/.openoffice.org2/user/fonts/ So I was assuming that a font packaged in an odt file would be placed somewhere similar on opening the odt file and then available exclusively to LO when editing the document. This is where I used to place my custom fonts and doesn't require admin access for font installation. > > This is the reason why fonts have never been embedded in any document > format for editing (not even in old Microsoft proprietary formats, > even if they were a memory dump), because if they are not installed > there is no chance of having them available for editing. > > Font embedding in PDF is a completely different story. PDF is a > document description format based on PostScript, and thus the engine > in the software can use the embedded fonts to render them on screen > thanks to the code developed by John Warnock (a genius developer, the > inventor of PostScript and one of the founders of Adobe). > > This feature was introduced in PDF 2.0, because the first version was > using Minion and Myriad, specific fonts with real time variable > metrics which had to be installed at system level in order to mimic > the fonts used to produce the document. > > I was working as a consultant for Adobe at that time, and I have been > the PDF spokeperson for Europe for several years. > > It is true that many years have gone by, but fonts are handled by > operating systems in the same way. If they are not installed in their > specific folder at boot time, they cannot be used for editing documents. > > I hope this helps. > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
