RE: embedding Arial Unicode MS

[Ralph Bruno <Ra...@visiontext.co.uk>]

HI all,

I'm perplexed by this Arial Unicode MS problem. I created a document in Word
using Arial Unicode MS, with bold and italicised words, then converted it
into a pdf. 

Going by Tore's comments on the lack of italic or bold versions of Arial
Unicode MS, I inspected the font properties of the document to see what it
had used for the italics and bold, and found that it had used ArialUnicode
throughout. There were no entries specifically for the bold or italic bits
(which I had noticed in other tests using standard Arial).

Am I right then in assuming that the italic and bold information must be
included within the metrics for ArialUnicodeMS?. The FOP UserConfig expects
a specific font for italic or bold, or is there some parameter I need to set
to get it to read the correct styling?

Thanks

Ralph Bruno

> > WARNING: unknown font ArialUnicodeMS,italic,normal so 
> defaulted font to any
> > rendering areas to PDF
> 
> This is actually correct.
> 
> The <font-name> in the metric file has nothing to do with how you
> reference to font in fop. That name is used in the pdf document.
> 
> The name in the <font-triplet name=...> are the name you 
> should use in the
> .fo document. You can also have more than one triplet for the 
> same font to
> provide aliases for the name, eg "Arial", "Arial MT", "ArialMT", etc
> 
> In your userconfig.xml you have defined the font "ArialUnicodeMS",
> "normal", "normal".
> 
> The warning is that fop can't find ArialUnicodeMS, italic, 
> normal - which
> is a complete different font :)
> 
> You have to add fonts for italic, bold and bold italic (if you have
> such a font). I'm not sure if the ArialUnicodeMS font exists 
> for italic or
> bold? Not many of the big unicode fonts do. The Cyberbit font 
> exists in
> bold and italics, but you have to buy it from BitStream.
> 
> Tore

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Re: embedding Arial Unicode MS

[Carlos Villegas <ca...@uniscope.co.jp>]

Ralph Bruno wrote:
> Going by Tore's comments on the lack of italic or bold versions of Arial
> Unicode MS, I inspected the font properties of the document to see what it
> had used for the italics and bold, and found that it had used ArialUnicode
> throughout. There were no entries specifically for the bold or italic bits
> (which I had noticed in other tests using standard Arial).

Maybe bold and italics is done in this case by playing with scaling and
skewing of the character coordinate system. 

Carlos

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