Thank you for the information.
Chanaka
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From: Clay Leeds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 10:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Having a font which is not embedded in the PDF
On Nov 6, 2004, at 12:41 PM, J.Pietschmann wrote:
> 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.
Web Maestro Clay
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