On Thursday 23 March 2006 05:07, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 23. M?rz 2006 00:31 schrieb avox: > > Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > > ... OTF is the future, but unfortunately it's not the present > > > for all applications yet. OO.o doesn't support OTF. You can't use > > > OpenType there. > > > > As I gather from http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37073 > > OO.o *does* display OpenType fonts, it just doesn't apply the advanced > > tables. > > Note that stacking diacritics, vertical layout, ligatures and all those > > other OTF > > features can't even be expressed in TTF and Type1. So I still say, go for > > OTF and > > enjoy the advanced features when the apps are ready. I'm pretty sure > > Scribus, > > pango-based apps and possibly OO.o will deliver within a year. > > OO.o does not display OTF, at least 2.0.1 does not. The fonts are listed in > the "Fonts" menus, but you can't apply them to any text (you can, ut you > won't see anything nor will the text be printed). OOo's CTL depends on OTF. And, it does print ... atleast Opentype with TrueType outlines do print. I haven't tested OpenType with CFF outlines though.
Regards, Rajeev J Sebastian
