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Problems with czech characters

Hello,
our Czech customers tell us that not all czech characters are printed 
correctly with the built-in pdf fonts. For example "R-caron" is not part 
of the font table in the pdf specification.
If we embed a true type font then it is fine, but we have not found a 
suitable font to ship with our application (license restrictions or heavy 
license fees)

Has anybody experienced similar problems? How can I make use of the fonts 
that acrobat reader comes with (Minion ...). Are these fonts available on 
all platforms? 
These fonts contain most foreign characters

Thanks
Eckard

Re: Problems with czech characters

Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>.
FOP doesn't support the Minion OpenType fonts from current Acrobat
Readers. OpenType fonts are not properly supported by FOP, yet.

As an alternative, have a look at http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/ which
provides TrueType fonts, published under the GPL license.

On 15.02.2006 08:13:49 Eckard_Buchner wrote:
> Hello,
> our Czech customers tell us that not all czech characters are printed 
> correctly with the built-in pdf fonts. For example "R-caron" is not part 
> of the font table in the pdf specification.
> If we embed a true type font then it is fine, but we have not found a 
> suitable font to ship with our application (license restrictions or heavy 
> license fees)
> 
> Has anybody experienced similar problems? How can I make use of the fonts 
> that acrobat reader comes with (Minion ...). Are these fonts available on 
> all platforms? 
> These fonts contain most foreign characters
> 
> Thanks
> Eckard



Jeremias Maerki


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Re: Problems with czech characters

Posted by je...@atol.si.
Hello!

I had same problem due to ISO latin 2 character set that is in use in our 
country (Slovenia).

You have to create font metric file for font types you want to use (from 
*.ttf) and register those files with FOP.

You can find instructions on how this is done here: 
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.20.5/fonts.html#custom





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Hello, 
our Czech customers tell us that not all czech characters are printed 
correctly with the built-in pdf fonts. For example "R-caron" is not part 
of the font table in the pdf specification. 
If we embed a true type font then it is fine, but we have not found a 
suitable font to ship with our application (license restrictions or heavy 
license fees) 

Has anybody experienced similar problems? How can I make use of the fonts 
that acrobat reader comes with (Minion ...). Are these fonts available on 
all platforms? 
These fonts contain most foreign characters 

Thanks 
Eckard