RE: [xep-support] Font management in 3.17?

From: Helberg, Clay (chelberg@spss.com)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 08:07:34 PST

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    Thanks, Richard. This is the solution Nikolai recommended as well, and it works fine for me.

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Richard Vincent [mailto:Richard.Vincent@excosoft.se]
    > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 6:18 AM
    > To: xep-support@renderx.com
    > Subject: RE: [xep-support] Font management in 3.17?
    >
    >
    > Hi!
    >
    > I received a similar error message from Acrobat when using a
    > fontname that included spaces. When I deleted the spaces in
    > fonts.xml the problem went away.
    >
    > Richard
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-xep-support@www.renderx.com
    > [mailto:owner-xep-support@www.renderx.com]On Behalf Of Helberg, Clay
    > Sent: den 21 januari 2003 21:10
    > To: xep-support@renderx.com
    > Subject: RE: [xep-support] Font management in 3.17?
    >
    >
    > Gustaf--
    >
    > Yes, I transferred my afm directory as well. The error
    > message I get in the XEP log is this:
    >
    > {?file:/d:/XEP-3.17/etc/fonts.xml: FontName 'Geometric Plain'
    > specified in AFM d
    > oes not match font name 'geometric'}
    >
    > This appeared for several other custom fonts as well (all of
    > which worked fine with 3.04). Tweaking the font names to
    > match those that XEP seemed to want eliminates the error
    > message, but this particular font still gives me problems
    > even when I fix the name from "Geometric" to "Geometric
    > Plain" (and add "Geometric" as an alias).
    >
    > When I view the generated PDF, every time I try to view a
    > page containing a character from this font, Acrobat Reader
    > (5.05) gives me this error:
    >
    > There was an error processing a page. There was a problem
    > reading this document(110).
    >
    >
    > --Clay
    >
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: Gustaf Liljegren [mailto:gustaf.liljegren@xml.se]
    > > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 11:11 AM
    > > To: xep-support@renderx.com
    > > Subject: Re: [xep-support] Font management in 3.17?
    > >
    > >
    > > Clay wrote:
    > >
    > > >I've been using 3.04 for some time, and I decided to try
    > > updating to the
    > > current version, 3.17. When I did, I found that my fonts.xml
    > > file (which I
    > > transferred over from my previous installation) no longer
    > > works, and I'm
    > > getting invalid PDF files. Can someone tell me what I need to
    > > change to get
    > > custom fonts working again? Thanks.
    > >
    > > Did you transfer your /afm directory too? What is the error message?
    > >
    > > I suggested earlier that RenderX make the .jar file avalible
    > > separately,
    > > unless something else important has changed too. Then you'd
    > > only have to
    > > switch one file.
    > >
    > > Gustaf
    > >
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