[Renamed thread] Converting fonts

[Petr van Blokland <bu...@petr.com>]

On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 09:30 AM, Oleg Tkachenko wrote:

> Petr van Blokland wrote:
>
>> I try to add new fonts to fop. According to the site this should be 
>> done
>> with the instruction below. I run this on OSX 10.2
>> Does anyone has an idea why this creates a OutOfMemoryError?
>> [titanm:/xpyth/FOP/fop-0.20.4] petr% java -cp  
>> build/fop.jar:lib/xercesImpl-2.0.1.jar:lib/xml-apis.jar:lib/xalan- 
>> 2.3.1.jar:lib/batik.jar org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.PFMReader  
>> /xpyth/python/site-packages/reportlab/fonts/PrBk_____.pfb
>
>> productusbook.xml
>> PFM Reader v1.1
>> Reading /xpyth/python/site-packages/reportlab/fonts/coo_____.pfb...
> Hmmmm, how come here is coo_____.pfb, but you said run it with 
> PrBk_____.pfb?
>
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
>>         <<no stack trace available>>
> Well, this exception I see second time and still don't get it. What 
> could be a reason? Sounds like either JVM unable to allocate memory 
> for the whole font file or font file is broken as PFMReader reads file 
> size  from the file itself.

Deat Oleg,

Sorry, I got it working by now. I got the error by (not reading the 
manual :-) converting
a .pfm file instead of a .pfb file. Now I converted all fonts and it 
works fine.

As graphic design studio we are transforming towards XML/XSLT/XML-FO to 
remove
Quark XPress from the general workflow. It looks like FOP can/will be 
an important part
of it (beside the XML/XSLT server "xpyth" that we developed from 
scratch in Python,
http://xml.petr.com/buro/products/webdesign//nl
The most important missing tag in FOP for us currently is <fo:float>
Do you have any idea when that will be implemented?

  Petr

Re: [Renamed thread] Converting fonts

[Oleg Tkachenko <ol...@multiconn.com>]

Petr van Blokland wrote:

> The most important missing tag in FOP for us currently is
> Do you have any idea when that will be implemented?

No way till 1.0dev is out. But if you want you can implement it yourself.

-- 
Oleg Tkachenko
eXperanto team
Multiconn Technologies, Israel