Bold/Italic versions of user embedded fonts

["Erik R. Ogan" <er...@slackers.net>]

This subject has been discussed at length on this list recently, but 
the consensus is that you need a separate font for each of 
{normal,bold,italic,bold-italic}.  This can be troublesome for fonts
for which only the normal TTF/Type1 is available. 

More importantly, however, according to the PDF Reference 
(second ed. (PDF 1.3) pp. 299):

	"If the font in a source document uses a bold or italic style, 
	but there is no font data for that style, the host operating 
	system will synthesize the style. In this case, a comma and the 
	style name (one of Bold, Italic, or BoldItalic) are appended to 
	the font name. For example, for a TrueType font that is a bold 
	variant of the New York font, the BaseFont value is written as 
	/NewYork,Bold"

Am I reading this incorrectly, or is FOP complaining unnecessarily? (when 
it can't find a given font-triplet?)

This issue is particularly important to me, because I'm trying to use FOP 
to match (within reason) the formatting of a particular set of documents 
that make use of this PDF feature.  (For a Type 1 font.) And I've been 
staring at the raw PDF in an effort to understand how it's doing that.

-e



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