Re: Open source font models

2004-04-27 Thread Pierrick Brihaye
Hi, Pierrick, from my point of view I would be interested in seeing the TTFReader and PFMReader modified to consider several maps, beside just unicode. I think such functionality would be very good for FOP. Thanks for your support : it was my first question ;-) Changes to layout that you

Re: Open source font models

2004-04-26 Thread Pierrick Brihaye
Hi, - Original Message - From: Chris Bowditch [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are interested in other font tables, but most of the FOP development team have full time jobs and work on FOP in their spare time. No problem : I am myself a full spare time Open Source developper :-) Jeremias

Re: Open source font models

2004-04-26 Thread Pierrick Brihaye
Hi, font models. I've had a look at iText, Batik and FOP. Since the FOP community seems to be the most active, my message goes to this list ;-) FOP more active than iText? Interesting. I'm rather turned towards Apache projects : that might bring a lack of objectivity :-) First question

Re: Open source font models

2004-04-26 Thread Pierrick Brihaye
Hi, It's neither a feature nor a bug. It's simply a gap in the implementation IMO. It really depends on your requirements. If you only have these obsolete fonts that FOP doesn't understand, it is surely worth trying to fix this. You may simply have to determine how much work it will be and

Open source font models

2004-04-23 Thread Pierrick Brihaye
Hi, I'm evaluating : 1) Java 2) Open source font models. I've had a look at iText, Batik and FOP. Since the FOP community seems to be the most active, my message goes to this list ;-) Here we go : I've been confronted to the terrible : [FATAL] Unicode cmap table not present [FATAL]