There are 3 options. 1) You must include font-name for each block with a reference to a font which contains every character you're trying to print. If you want bold text you must reference a bold font name on the tag. If you want unicode you must name a font set which includes the unicode characters. If you want bold unicode you must have a bold unicode font.
2) You can reference a bold font name to get normal characters to print in bold and a fallback font name of unicode to get unicode characters to print. You'd still need a font file containing a unicode bold triplet to get the unicode to print in bold. 3) The program must be able to use a normal font and generate a bold font from it. I'm no expert on generating fonts, I don't know how difficult it might be to identify lines of characters in fonts, but I think there's more to creating a good bold font than simply making the lines thicker. -----Original Message----- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 3:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Problem regarding font substitution There are two fonts: arial*.ttf and arialuni.ttf. The latter has more glyphs but only comes in one style. Word can display bold and italic for ArialUni because it tells Windows to synthesize the derived styles. We could theoretically do this, too, for PDF output, but that is not currently implemented in Apache FOP. Anyway, I don't think such a derived font can ever look really nice. And AFAIK, PDF is the only output format (of the ones we support) that allows this font derivation. For reference: - PDF 1.4 Spec, chapter 5.5.2 "TrueType Fonts" Using "ArialUni,Bold" instead of "ArialUni" in the /BaseFont entry creates the synthesized font. On 02.02.2011 09:21:41 mehdi houshmand wrote: > Hi Peder, > > What OS are you using? I just checked in Windows 7, and it's not > obvious using the file system GUI, but there Arial is split up into > arial.ttf, ariblk.ttf, ariali.ttf, arialbd.ttf and arialbi.ttf. > However, when going into Windows\Fonts, it does appear to be a single > file. In the Ubuntu flavour of linux, it's the same, arial is split up > into it's constituent parts. > > So 2 questions really, firstly, what OS are you using? Secondly what > version of FOP are you using? > > Thanks > > Mehdi > > 2011/2/2 Peet Kes <[email protected]>: > > Hi Eric, > > > > But I only have one truetrype file for the ArialUnicodeMS font I > > only have ARIALUNI.TTF and when I use this font in Word I can turn > > on Bold and Italic. > > What do I have to do to get this working? > > > > Best regards, > > > > Peder > > > > 2011/2/1 Eric Douglas <[email protected]> > >> > >> You're referencing normal and bold triplets with one font file name. > >> They're normally separate files. > >> ________________________________ > >> From: Peder [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:26 AM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Problem regarding font substitution > >> > >> Hi all, > >> I ran across a problem regarding font substitution. > >> I use font 'x' for my main output. Whenever I come across > >> characters which are not included in my font 'x' I want to use the > >> ArialUnicodeMS as catch-all. > >> So on the fo:root element I specified: font-family="ArialUnicodeMS" > >> But now when I come across the following fo:inline <fo:inline > >> font-weight="bold">Kiºar Vari</fo:inline> The text does not appear > >> bold in the PDF How come? > >> In my fop configuration I specified the following entry for the > >> ArialUnicodeMS font: > >> <font metrics-url="/location to fonts/ARIALUNI.xml" > >> kerning="true" > >> embed-url="/location to fonts/ARIALUNI.TTF"> > >> > >> <font-triplet name="ArialUnicodeMS" style="normal" > >> weight="normal"/> > >> <font-triplet name="ArialUnicodeMS" style="normal" > >> weight="bold"/> > >> <font-triplet name="ArialUnicodeMS" style="italic" > >> weight="normal"/> > >> <font-triplet name="ArialUnicodeMS" style="italic" > >> weight="bold"/> > >> </font> > >> Do I have to change my configuration? > >> When I run the transformation I receive the following message: > >> WARN Event > >> groupId=org.apache.fop.fonts.FontEventProducer,id=org.apache.fop.fo > >> nts.FontEventProducer.fontSubstituted,key=fontSubstituted,params={r > >> equested=ArialUnicodeMS,normal,700, > >> effective=ArialUnicodeMS,normal,400} > >> How can I prevent this from happening and get the bolded name? > >> Best regards, > >> Peder > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
