RE: Japanese fonts do not appear in desired weights

2003-12-08 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Graham Hannington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The home page also offers instructions that are > probably perfectly readable > in Japanese, or to a more experienced FOP user, but > I have not been able to > get anywhere with this. > ... > I'd really like to get JPFOP working, not just for > th

RE: Japanese fonts do not appear in desired weights

2003-12-02 Thread Victor Mote
Graham Hannington wrote: > Gotcha, thanks. I think this is what JPFOP, er, kludges (no disrespect > intended to the developer). From the JPFOP site: > > > renderInlineArea() method was modified. ... For Bold, the characters are > rendered 4 times with offset. > > If I read this correctly, and JPFO

RE: Japanese fonts do not appear in desired weights

2003-12-02 Thread Graham Hannington
> FOP does not have an engine to create fonts with different weight a single typeface definition. Gotcha, thanks. I think this is what JPFOP, er, kludges (no disrespect intended to the developer). From the JPFOP site: > renderInlineArea() method was modified. ... For Bold, the characters are rend

Re: Japanese fonts do not appear in desired weights

2003-12-02 Thread J.Pietschmann
Graham Hannington wrote: I can already use both MS Mincho (monospace) and MS PMincho (the "P" stands for "Proportional") just fine. The problem is that I cannot make these fonts appear in different weights. (Or perhaps I've completely missed the point of your email?) FOP does not have an engine to

RE: Japanese fonts do not appear in desired weights

2003-12-02 Thread Graham Hannington
> This means you can only select "MS Mincho" and "MS PMincho" I can already use both MS Mincho (monospace) and MS PMincho (the "P" stands for "Proportional") just fine. The problem is that I cannot make these fonts appear in different weights. (Or perhaps I've completely missed the point of your e

Re: Japanese fonts do not appear in desired weights

2003-11-26 Thread J.Pietschmann
Graham Hannington wrote: This is a TrueType collection file with2 fonts Containing the following fonts: MS Mincho MS PMincho This means you can only select "MS Mincho" and "MS PMincho". Whatever the last one is. Generate the metrics, an appropriate userconfig and try it out: こんに こんに J.Piets

RE: Japanese fonts do not appear in desired weights

2003-11-26 Thread Graham Hannington
> I would definitely try generating a different .xml from the same .ttc, but change the -ttc param to say "MS Mincho Bold" (--you get the idea) See if that works out okay. I tried "MS Mincho Bold" and several other variations ("... bold", "...-Bold", "... (Bold)"), but they all resulted in: This

RE: Japanese fonts do not appear in desired weights

2003-11-26 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
> -Original Message- > From: Graham Hannington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yep, I can see how that would be a problem... in my defence ;-), > I was just > copying lines in the supplied userconfig.xml that also does this. > Is there a > way to get TTFReader to extract separate bold, italic

RE: Japanese fonts do not appear in desired weights

2003-11-26 Thread Graham Hannington
Andreas, Chris, Thanks very much for your responses. Andreas, > When embedding fonts, a separate metrics file should be generated for bold, italic and bold-italic (that is, if you want them to work properly). Right now, your userconfig maps all combinations (normal, bold, italic, bold-italic) to

Re: Japanese fonts do not appear in desired weights

2003-11-26 Thread Chris Bowditch
Graham Hannington wrote: I'm using FOP to produce English and Japanese PDFs. For English, I use Helvetica and the system "monospace" (Courier) fonts. For Japanese, I use MS PMincho and MS Gothic. In the English PDFs, the fonts appear at their desired weights (such as bold or normal). In the Japanes

RE: Japanese fonts do not appear in desired weights

2003-11-26 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
> -Original Message- > From: Graham Hannington > > I'm using FOP to produce English and Japanese PDFs. > > > In the Japanese PDFs, the fonts appear at a single weight. PMincho appears > throughout in normal weight, Gothic appears throughout in bold weight. > Weird. > > MS PMincho and MS Go

Japanese fonts do not appear in desired weights

2003-11-26 Thread Graham Hannington
I'm using FOP to produce English and Japanese PDFs. For English, I use Helvetica and the system "monospace" (Courier) fonts. For Japanese, I use MS PMincho and MS Gothic. In the English PDFs, the fonts appear at their desired weights (such as bold or normal). In the Japanese PDFs, the fonts appe