On Jun 4, 2007, at 3:37 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote
Fonts and styles are special beasties in the PDF world. It's a long story, dating back to PDF's origin in PostScript. For instance, the font must supply separate bold and italic (aka oblique) fonts to support those two styles. Underline, strikethrough, outline, shadow and all that fun aren't even in the PDF specification. The best part is that I have to actually parse the postscript and truetype font files to figure out the exact width of characters - it's not because something is 6 pixels wide, that this means it's automatically 3 millimeters on paper: the screen version is an approximation of the font definition. This parsing system is complicated and not yet finished. And it gets even better if you also have to support unicode. So it's something that will take some time to finish. In the meantime, the standard set will suffice for most purposes.
Best regards, Jan Schenkel. Quartam Reports for Revolution <http://www.quartam.com>
Hi Jan, Thanks for the info. Sorry to hear about the complex problems with different fonts & styles. Are you fairly confident that in the future the user will be able to use any font & style and also print them in full justification or is it too complicated to say for sure. regards, -=>JB<=- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
