Anyone alive on the list at the moment?

[Martin Edge <Ma...@asmorphic.net.au>]

Need some help understanding why the trunk does not behave properly when
dealing with missing fonts. 

I used to have Metric files to define my fonts, but they do not seem to have
any effect anymore. 

Urgently trying to get the new intermediate format to work for a job I need
to run.

Thanks!
Martin


 

RE: Anyone alive on the list at the moment?

[Martin Edge <Ma...@asmorphic.net.au>]

Hey Chris,

The use of the metric files was a legacy attempt from the earlier trunk,
when I was using the old AT format.. just seemed to work that way.

I have since moved away from the metrics in my testing (as you will see from
the thread..)

Thanks for your response!
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bowditch [mailto:bowditch_chris@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, 4 July 2009 7:03 PM
To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org
Subject: Re: Anyone alive on the list at the moment?

Martin Edge wrote:

Yes there are people here listening but at least 2 regular developers 
are on holidays ATM so thats why responses might be slow or lacking.

> Need some help understanding why the trunk does not behave properly when
> dealing with missing fonts. 
> 
> I used to have Metric files to define my fonts, but they do not seem to
have
> any effect anymore. 

What affect are you expecting from metric files exactly? You shouldn't 
need to use metric files with FOP trunk in all but a tiny number of use 
cases (IIRC, TTC is the main use case where metric files must still be 
used) In all other cases using metric files puts you at a disadvantage, 
i.e. FOP will ignore AFM Files for Type1 Fonts.

> 
> Urgently trying to get the new intermediate format to work for a job I
need
> to run.

I was going to ask for more details on the problem but looks like you've 
provided further information in a separate thread.

Chris

> 
> Thanks!
> Martin
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Re: Anyone alive on the list at the moment?

[Chris Bowditch <bo...@hotmail.com>]

Martin Edge wrote:

Yes there are people here listening but at least 2 regular developers 
are on holidays ATM so thats why responses might be slow or lacking.

> Need some help understanding why the trunk does not behave properly when
> dealing with missing fonts. 
> 
> I used to have Metric files to define my fonts, but they do not seem to have
> any effect anymore. 

What affect are you expecting from metric files exactly? You shouldn't 
need to use metric files with FOP trunk in all but a tiny number of use 
cases (IIRC, TTC is the main use case where metric files must still be 
used) In all other cases using metric files puts you at a disadvantage, 
i.e. FOP will ignore AFM Files for Type1 Fonts.

> 
> Urgently trying to get the new intermediate format to work for a job I need
> to run.

I was going to ask for more details on the problem but looks like you've 
provided further information in a separate thread.

Chris

> 
> Thanks!
> Martin
> 
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