On 29.01.2003 19:29:02 Rodolfo M. Raya wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 14:41, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > Hi > > > The Arial font you're talking about is TrueType, right? You can't use > > TrueType fonts with the PostScript renderer, yet. The PostScript > > renderer is not anywhere near the functionality the PDF renderer offers. > > I noticed that you introduced a lot of changes in FOP regarding font handling > during the last couple of weeks. Any chance this changes will improve > PostScript renderer soon?
No. You have to be aware that we have to lines of development here: Maintenance (where the current releases come from) and redesign. I'm mostly working on the latter. The other font-related stuff was mostly bugfixing. You will have to go with the PDF renderer for now, I'm afraid. > > I suggest you generate PDF files and convert them to PostScript using > > Acrobat Reader (command line only available on Unix), GhostScript or > > pdf2ps. > > I need a solution for Windows too. Acrobat Reader is OK in Linux. > GhostScript fails converting files with Unicode fonts. > > Is there any other tool that can convert PDF to PostScript in Windows? Win32 port of pdftops from the xpdf package perhaps: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617&release_id=91406 > > > Normal procedures for adding fonts to FOP is here: > > http://xml.apache.org/fop/fonts.html > > > > Please be aware that not every renderer support every font. > > I need to know if PostScript renderer will be able to use Arial Unicode > if I embed it in FOP. Any idea? As I already tried to explain, it won't, at least not in the near future. You're invited to help us add that functionality. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
