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Mac ttf fonts -- still causing trouble...
Hello,
for my work I write multilingual texts, mostly in Western languages and
Japanese, but sometimes Trad. and Mod. Chinese or Korean is included as
well. I write my texts in xml and just started writing style sheets for PDF
output. Everything works fine on Mac OS X with oXygen and FOP 0.95 now. I am
not a computer specialist, but I hope to explain my problem well:
Some .ttf fonts do not work, these are all fonts that cannot produce metric
files with TTFReader (I started with that, although now I do not use them
since I realised 0.95 does not need them). The problem is mentioned
frequently on this forum a well, a missing cmap table as the terminal says
(although it seems that the fonts do have a cmap table).
I could deal with the problem in 2 ways:
- Workaround: Avoid those fonts and use replacement fonts -- which is
difficult for few East Asian fonts.
- Solving the problem working on the fonts or FOP/TTFReader -- which is far
beyond my level of computer knowledge.
So 2 questions:
1) Are there any Korean or Chinese ttf fonts for Mac that are known to work?
2) This problem occurs in several variations between 2006 and 2008 on this
forum, has there been a solution in the meantime?
Thanks for listening,
Maria
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Re: Mac ttf fonts -- still causing trouble...
Posted by Maria2009 <ma...@shinoto.de>.
Hi,
Jeremias Maerki-2 wrote:
>
>>The problem is mentioned
>> frequently on this forum a well, a missing cmap table as the terminal
>> says
>> (although it seems that the fonts do have a cmap table).
>
> More precisely, FOP requires a "Unicode CMap table". Unfortunately, not
> all fonts have that.
>
OK
>> 1) Are there any Korean or Chinese ttf fonts for Mac that are known to
>> work?
>
> I don't know much about Korean and Chinese so I don't have any
> recommendations. Let's hope someone else can help here.
>
I found several more sources for free fonts yesterday, those I tested
already work fine (Japanese, Korean), and I am still going to check the
rest: Chinese modern and traditional.
>> 2) This problem occurs in several variations between 2006 and 2008 on
>> this
>> forum, has there been a solution in the meantime?
>
> No. So far nobody had enough of an itch to do something about it, I'm
> afraid.
>
haha!
> Sorry for not having a better answer for you.
>
No, it helps to know that I did not miss anything obvious. Thanks.
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Re: Mac ttf fonts -- still causing trouble...
Posted by Maria2009 <ma...@shinoto.de>.
Hi,
Jeremias Maerki-2 wrote:
>
>>The problem is mentioned
>> frequently on this forum a well, a missing cmap table as the terminal
>> says
>> (although it seems that the fonts do have a cmap table).
>
> More precisely, FOP requires a "Unicode CMap table". Unfortunately, not
> all fonts have that.
>
OK
>> 1) Are there any Korean or Chinese ttf fonts for Mac that are known to
>> work?
>
> I don't know much about Korean and Chinese so I don't have any
> recommendations. Let's hope someone else can help here.
>
I found several more sources for free fonts yesterday, those I tested
already work fine (Japanese, Korean), and I am still going to check the
rest: Chinese modern and traditional.
>> 2) This problem occurs in several variations between 2006 and 2008 on
>> this
>> forum, has there been a solution in the meantime?
>
> No. So far nobody had enough of an itch to do something about it, I'm
> afraid.
>
haha!
> Sorry for not having a better answer for you.
>
No, it helps to know that I did not miss anything obvious. Thanks.
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Re: Mac ttf fonts -- still causing trouble...
Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>.
On 13.02.2009 01:33:16 Maria2009 wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> for my work I write multilingual texts, mostly in Western languages and
> Japanese, but sometimes Trad. and Mod. Chinese or Korean is included as
> well. I write my texts in xml and just started writing style sheets for PDF
> output. Everything works fine on Mac OS X with oXygen and FOP 0.95 now. I am
> not a computer specialist, but I hope to explain my problem well:
>
> Some .ttf fonts do not work, these are all fonts that cannot produce metric
> files with TTFReader (I started with that, although now I do not use them
> since I realised 0.95 does not need them). The problem is mentioned
> frequently on this forum a well, a missing cmap table as the terminal says
> (although it seems that the fonts do have a cmap table).
More precisely, FOP requires a "Unicode CMap table". Unfortunately, not
all fonts have that.
> I could deal with the problem in 2 ways:
>
> - Workaround: Avoid those fonts and use replacement fonts -- which is
> difficult for few East Asian fonts.
> - Solving the problem working on the fonts or FOP/TTFReader -- which is far
> beyond my level of computer knowledge.
>
> So 2 questions:
> 1) Are there any Korean or Chinese ttf fonts for Mac that are known to work?
I don't know much about Korean and Chinese so I don't have any
recommendations. Let's hope someone else can help here.
> 2) This problem occurs in several variations between 2006 and 2008 on this
> forum, has there been a solution in the meantime?
No. So far nobody had enough of an itch to do something about it, I'm
afraid.
>
> Thanks for listening,
Sorry for not having a better answer for you.
> Maria
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> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Mac-ttf-fonts----still-causing-trouble...-tp21988011p21988011.html
> Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Jeremias Maerki
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