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 the

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 email?)

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
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

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 JPFOP is

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. snip / 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 Gothic

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 Japanese

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 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 and

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 is a

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: fo:block font-family='MS