On 12.04.2004 21:34:10 Shaun Roach wrote:
> Sorry for not providing the version of FOP I was using, Jeremias.  It
> was 0.20.5, but, I upgraded to the newest version of FOP in the CVS and
> used your code and it worked like a charm.  I really appreciate your
> help.  

Glad I could help.

> I would use text stroking, except the filesize difference is so huge. 
> For example, the PDFs I was generating before with glyphs were 1.5MB,
> but these ones I am generating now with text elements instead of glyphs
> are 17KB.  It seems crazy, but the difference is that big.

Ah well, didn't think about that. I didn't have to serve PDF to the
Internet. I used to feed a number of huge laser printers which didn't
care about file size. :-)

> The only thing that I can't get to tweak right is that the font sizes
> seem to be about 1-2 pts smaller when I transcode them into PDFs, and
> they are no longer bold.  Do you know what might cause this?

Not without some debugging I'm afraid. I haven't even been aware of that
particular problem.

> Anyway, thanks very much for your assistance, I was stuck on this
> problem for quite awhile.


Jeremias Maerki


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