Re: issues with TTFReader

>Geert Bormans wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>>Hi,
>>I need to deliver PDF for all European languages using FOP (preferably)
>>I am testing on a windows machine, the eventual operation will be
>>on a Sun Solaris 10 machine.
>>And I have a bunch of questions
>>1. Does anyone have a good recommendation for a font that covers
>>all the characters I will need. Currently I think that Arial
>>Unicode MS would suite best
>>I appreciate suggestions for alternatives
>
>Arial Unicode MS does indeed have a good coverage of glyphs for most
>languages. I can't immediately think of any alternatives. You may
>find you are breaching the license of that font if you are planning
>on using it on a Solaris system however, as I believe it is included
>with MS Office. So technically you would need a license for MS
>Office for your Solaris environment in order to be able to use the font there.
>
>>2. I am trying to use TTFReader to  generate the XML font metrics.
>>That doesn't seem to work
>
>In FOP v0.95 and later you don't need to generate Font metrics. In
>fact it is recommended that you don't generate the metrics as FOP is
>far more intelligent about how it reads the Font when not using
>metrics in the latest versions.
>
>>This is my command-line
>>java -cp
>>D:\XML\XSLFO\FOP\fop-0.95\build\fop.jar;D:\XML\XSLFO\FOP\fop-0.95\lib\avalon-framework-4.2.0.jar;D:\XML\XSLFO\FOP\fop-0.95\lib\commons-logging-1.0.4.jar;D:\XML\XSLFO\FOP\fop-0.95\lib\commons-io-1.3.1.jar
>>org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader C:\Windows\Fonts\ARIALUNI.TTF arialuni.xml
>>This is the error message I get
>
>The error is a classpath error. Basically you are missing
>xmlgraphics-commons-1.3.jar from the classpath above.
>
><snip/>
>
>>3. Can I then use the .ttf and the font metrics on the solaris
>>machine, or do I need to find an alternative font an do some
>>similar actions again?
>
>As already mentioned you don't need the metrics file at all. Copying
>the TTF to the Solaris machine will work but I believe you may be
>breaching the terms of the MS Office license, although IANAL.
>
>>Are font metric files interchangeable? If someone generated the
>>metrics file for me, could I just reuse it... If yes, is there
>>somewhere a library of metrics files then?
>
>Yes you could but as I already explained they are no longer
>necessary. So no, there is no library of metrics available.
>
>Chris
>
>
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