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Posted to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by "Teator, Michael" <mt...@tjctechnology.com> on 2003/05/29 15:56:38 UTC
RE: Helvetica Standard Font not found (more followup)
This document from adobe described that Helvetica and Times are no longer
standard fonts in 4.0 and later versions of Acrobat.
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/19ce6.htm
MT Arial and MT Times New Roman are the new standard fonts to replace them.
Anyone know offhand if you can specify "MT Arial" as a font family in FOP
and it not require it to be embedded?
Michael Teator
mteator@tjctechnology.com
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From: Teator, Michael [mailto:mteator@tjctechnology.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:12 AM
To: 'fop-user@xml.apache.org'
Subject: RE: Helvetica Standard Font not found
Same issue happens here. Even if I try embedding the Helvetica, on my
machine it still shows it as using Arial as the actual font.
Embedding is also scary, we have one product that has Arial Narrow embedded
and a couple other special use fonts, and many users report it either causes
their Reader to crash or the printouts are corrupted.
We've tested with .4, .5rc2 and .5rc3a, but all versions produce the same
results.
Michael Teator
mteator@tjctechnology.com
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From: jaccoud@petrobras.com.br [mailto:jaccoud@petrobras.com.br]
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:05 AM
To: fop-user@xml.apache.org
Subject: Re: Helvetica Standard Font not found
I suffer from a similar problem. I specified Helvetica for my document, to
assure portability, but it does not work well, because although Helvetica
and its variants Bold and BoldOblique are correctly listed as original
fonts, Acrobat Reader uses Arial to show and print the document. (Yes, I
know they look alike but there are significant differences.)
Does somebody known why? Does it has something to do with Postscript font
substitution tables? (They scare the hell out of me, they are more a
nuisance than a commodity.)
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Assunto: Helvetica Standard
Font not found
28/05/2003 09:47
Favor responder a
fop-user
We are generating PDFs via FOP and decided to use the Helvetica font since
it was one of the 'guaranteed to be there' fonts.
However, we have a significant percentage of users that are complaining
they can not display the PDF properly because Reader is reporting that
Helvetica cannot be found. The versions of Reader are varied, but even
users with 5.1 are having this problem.
Any ideas?
Michael Teator
mteator@tjctechnology.com
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Re: Helvetica Standard Font not found (more followup)
Posted by "J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>.
Teator, Michael wrote:
> Anyone know offhand if you can specify "MT Arial" as a font family in FOP
> and it not require it to be embedded?
Just use font-family="sans-serif". And please get used to
cut old "original content".
J.Pietschmann
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