On 27.11.2003 17:30:18 J.Pietschmann wrote: > Jeremias Maerki wrote: <snip/>
> >>This means users can use AWT fonts for creating PDF, but they can't > >>embed them. This may cause the resulting PDF to fail, but so what. > > > > > > --> Support questions > It depends. If users are still required to declare used fonts explicitely > as well as whether they should be embedded, and FOP bails out if told > to embed an AWT font, it shouldn't be much of a problem. Font configuration should/will become easier. For TrueType and Type1 fonts this should just be a matter of specifying a list of directories in which to look for fonts. A cache is needed to speed up the inventory on startup. > > And there's still the question if we can produce font metric information > > for the target formats (there's PCL and PostScript and..., too) that > > result in the desired output. > > The idea was to query the renderer for fonts, or get a renderer > specific font manager, and use the abstract interface to get > mainly character metrics, various other font measures and perhaps > font attributes like "sans-serif" or so. My idea is still different: Having several font sources and the renderers merely announce which font sources they support. That leaves to option open for later to enable multiple renderers simultaneously. Example: FontSource A: TrueType fonts FontSource B: Type 1 fonts FontSource C: AWT fonts FontSource D: Base14 fonts FontSource E: PCL base fonts (just a guess) PDF renderer supports: A, B, D (maybe C) PostScript renderer supports: A, B, D (maybe C) Java2D/AWT renderer supports: A and C PCL renderer: Probably A, E ..... > > Seriously, I don't think working with AWT's Font will do us any good. > > The differences between JDKs are too great. > > Hmhm. I still think > - We must be able to use AWT fonts in the AWT renderer. > - We must be able to use the default PDF fonts for the PDF renderer > - We should be able to use TTF for both AWT and PDF > - We should not rely on the default PDF fonts in the AWT renderer (doh!) > - I'd like to support using TTF with generated and possibly hand-corrected > metrics as well as using TTF directly. > > The possiblity to use AWT fonts for non-embedded fonts in PDF is a bonus. > The possiblity to use AWT fonts in PDF even for embedding would be just > another bonus. +1 to all 7 points. Should be doable with my aproach. Jeremias Maerki
