Vincent Hennebert is working with Victor Mote on the issue. They are quite active. I think they will soon have something ready. When they are I'm sure you will hear about it one way or another. The new font subsystem will involve various changes over the whole codebase. After all, a whole subsystem will be replaced when FOrayFont is ready.
On 18.04.2006 08:50:18 Karl Roberts wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for the replies, I only started to notice this problem when I > switched from -enc ansi ans started embedding the font, unfortunatly I > need to embed the font as I need to render unicode characters. > My simplified example was used to reduce the problem down to the bare > essentials > > How when I know when/if the FOray font library is improoved? Will there > be a new commit into FOP or just a library version bump? > > Cheers > > Karl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Bowditch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 13 April 2006 6:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Cut & Paste problem using TTF embedded font > > Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > > It's not similar to bug 5335, it IS bug 5335. :-) The whole copy/paste > > > thing does not work for any character even if you're talking about > > 7-bit ASCII in this case. Bug 5335 contains a patch to fix the problem > > > but we didn't apply it for IP policy reasons. It has been copied from > > the FOray project and so far nobody has gone after the legal stuff > > necessary to get everything right. On the other side, someone is > > working with FOray to construct a better font library that we can use > > which will also address this problem. I hope we can soon resolve this. > > In addition to Jeremias comments I would add that there is a workaround > for this problem in the case where you are only using plain ASCII > characters. Specify the -enc ansi when you generate the font metrics > using TTFReader. > > Chris Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
