Many thanks, Chuck. That's pretty much what I was thinking. I wasn't sure about embedding the fonts. Thanks, -- best,sc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Paussa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 5:44 PM Subject: Re: Fonts:: Can fop display *any* local font
> You can embed any font in the generated PDF following the instructions > given here http://xml.apache.org/fop/fonts > > Your catalog of fonts are in your machine. So create a script to > generate the font metric files, edit the userconfig.xml file and then > generate an FO document that displays some text in each of the fonts. > > >Is it possible to display *any* locally installed font or are we limited to > >just a few main ones? As I recall, fop is limited to just four or five main > >fonts for display in pdf output. Is that correct? > > > >I'm interested in making a catalogue of all locally available fonts. I was > >thinking, one way might be through xml and fop to pdf. But probably not a > >good idea, no? > >
