Clay Leeds wrote:Have you tried creating the PDF file without using userconfig.xml & font metrics files? Perhaps that will just work?
Not embedding the font is achieved just by omitting the embed-file attribute in the font declaration. FOP still needs the font declarations in a userconfiguration file and the font metrics files, because the character widths therein are the base for line layout.
Thank you for the info, Joerg. So, what does this look like? Is it something like this:
Font declaration *with* embedding:
<font metrics-file="FTL_____.xml" kerning="yes"
embed-file="C:\myfonts\FTL_____.pfb">
<font-triplet name="FrutigerLight" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>Font declaration *without* embedding: <font metrics-file="FTL_____.xml" kerning="yes"> <font-triplet name="FrutigerLight" style="normal" weight="normal"/> </font>
Is that correct?
Unfortunately, PDF with user specified fonts which haven't been embedded wont work in Acrobat Reader, unless Acrobat Font Manager is running and the font is registered there. In particular, Acrobat Reader wont look for fonts in the Windows font directory for FOP generated PDF files. I suspect thiss is also true for most other PDF tools.
Summary: if you don't embed user fonts, you should know what you are doing.
J.Pietschmann
It would be good to add this information to the FOP Fonts page. This additional Adobe Acrobat/Reader information would be good to add to either a "NOTE" or a "WARNING" breakout box. I'll see what I can do.
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