I've just learned how to set up custom fonts, and more or less have most international characters working by importing custom font metrics for "Arial Unicode MS".
However, I've looked around the office at a few other computers and it seems that this font isn't standard... apparently now it's bundled with Microsoft Office 2000, whereas it used to be free for download. Presumably this means that it isn't safe to distribute anymore, and I can't seem to find any other free fonts which include a large enough slice of Unicode to satisfy us (although there are a couple around which aren't _too_ expensive... there are a few which seem to prohibit commercial use outright.) But anyway... The FOP AWT renderer (which we're using for TIFF generation) seems to work with all fonts even if I don't specify a custom font. This is because Java 1.5 supports font substitution, and thus makes use of all the smaller fonts which might only support a few different scripts each. And these smaller fonts _are_ available on all systems I can see. I was wondering whether people have a way to either make the PDF version substitute fonts, or whether there is another trick I can use to simulate the feature. Perhaps there is some function people have come up with for XSL-T which can generate the correct font-family for any given block of text? If such a thing existed, I could have the font-family attribute populated correctly into the XSL-FO (and all I would need to do then is include several dozen XML files for the metrics. ;-) ) Daniel -- Daniel Noll NUIX Pty Ltd Level 8, 143 York Street, Sydney 2000 Phone: (02) 9283 9010 Fax: (02) 9283 9020 This message is intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this message or attachment is strictly prohibited. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
