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by cbowditch :: Rate this Message:

Geert Bormans wrote:

Hi,

> Sorry for being so ignorant....

Don't apologize for being a newbie. You've asked on the right list, so
we are happy to answer your questions.

>
> I came across dejavu in the archive of this forum
> I have downloaded that yesterday
>
> what do I need to exactly do to make it work with fop
> - extract all the ttf from the zip
> - make some sort of reference to the ttf files in the conf?

Yes add a font element into fop.xconf below the PDF Renderer, an example
for Lucide Console:

<font kerning="yes" embed-url="file:///c:/windows/fonts/lucon.ttf">
<font-triplet name="Lucida Console" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>

> - and set the default font family to "dejavu" in the root element of my fo

The 3 steps you've outlined above are a good summary of the steps
involved. So give it a go and let us know if you have any problems.

Thanks,

Chris

>
> thanks again
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> At 12:13 8/05/2009, you wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Chris Bowditch wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Linux-based distributions provide a lot of fonts with varying coverage
>> of the Unicode standard. I can think of two of them, DejaVu and
>> FreeFont, but there are probably others.
>> http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
>> There are also the STIX fonts:
>> http://www.aip.org/stixfonts/
>>
>> All those fonts should have a more permissive license than Arial Unicode
>> MS, and provide a good coverage of all European languages.
>>
>> <snip/>
>>
>> HTH,
>> Vincent
>>
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