From: Nikolai Grigoriev (grig@renderx.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 03:34:34 PST
Benneth,
> What Adobe specifications are you refering to with regard
> to the adobe-* attributes? I understand that the values are
> determined by Adobe, but don't know where to find
> the values for a given OpenType font.
The values for Registry, Ordering, and Supplement fields
in the CIDSystemInfo dictionary in the font desctiptor are
arbitrary - there are no constraints on it. However,
the only four character collections recognized by Acrobat
are Adobe CJK sets: Adobe-GB1, Adobe-CNS1,
Adobe-Japan1, and Adobe-Korea1. This implementation
limit effectively narrows the scope of unembedded CID
fonts: they can only be used for CJK characters. There is no
standard character collection to represent e.g. Cyrillic
or Hebrew.
> Is there a tool that reports these values for the font,
> or are they published in some document?
I could not find one, despite browsing Adobe documentation
very thoroughly. Perhaps you will be more lucky :-).
However, I believe that the best thing would be to obtain
Type1 equivalents of OpenType fonts - this would greatly
facilitate the process.
Best regards,
Nikolai Grigoriev
RenderX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bennett Smith" <B.Smith@cputech.com>
To: <xep-support@renderx.com>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 8:14 PM
Subject: RE: [xep-support] Problem embedding Adobe OpenType Fonts, need help please.
What Adobe specifications are you refering to with regard to the adobe-*
attributes? I understand that the values are determined by Adobe, but
don't know where to find the values for a given OpenType font. Is there
a tool that reports these values for the font, or are they published in
some document?
Is anyone aware of a work-around for this limitation of XEP? Is it
possible to convert an OpenType font to be a TrueType font so it can be
embedded in the PDF?
Is there any word on when XEP will support emdedding of OpenType fonts?
If there is no known work-around then this would be a very important
feature to include, hopefully soon!
Many thanks
-- Bennett
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Peshkov [mailto:peshkov@renderx.com]
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 8:04 AM
To: Bennett Smith
Subject: Re: [xep-support] Problem embedding Adobe OpenType Fonts, need
help please.
Hello Bennett,
You have 'embed="true"' in your font configuration, but XEP cannot embed
OpenType font thus it issues a warning. XEP limitations regarding
TrueType/OpenType fonts are listed in section 5.1. "TrueType and
OpenType Fonts" of "XEP 3.6 User Guide" (userguide.pdf). As for
'adobe-*' attributes - their values are determined by Adobe ad hoc for
each character collection; please refer to Adobe's specifications.
Best regards,
Alexander Peshkov mailto:peshkov@renderx.com
RenderX
BS> Hello,
BS> I have the XEP 3.6.3 client and am trying to follow the steps to
BS> configure support for some additional Adobe OpenType fonts I have.
BS> The fonts are part of the "Adobe Type Basics OpenType Ed."
BS> collection. Following the instructions in the manual I added some
BS> additional lines to the fonts.xml file. Here is an example of the
BS> additional font lines I have added:
BS> <font name="AGaramondPro-Regular"
BS> ttf="C:/PSFONTS/AGaramondPro-Regular.otf"
BS> adobe-encoding="UniCNS-UCS2-H"
BS> adobe-ordering="CNS1"
BS> adobe-supplement="1"
BS> embed="true">
BS> <alias name="AGaramondPro"/>
BS> </font>
BS> When I convert a .fo file to .pdf the conversion seems to be working
BS> and I get a pdf that mentions the new font. However, I also get an
BS> error message(or warning, not sure which) from XEP stating that the
BS> font cannot be embedded. When I look at the document properties in
BS> Acrobat it shows that the fonts have been substituted with some
BS> other font instead of the one I am expecting.
BS> I do not understand why XEP cannot embed the font properly. Just to
BS> make sure the font can be embedded I created a small FrameMaker
BS> document that uses the font and then generated a PDF file from it
BS> using Acrobat Professional. When I did this it successfully
BS> embedded the font in the PDF without any warning.
BS> One area where I'm a bit confused is with the three adobe-
BS> attributes in the <font> element. How can I determine what these
BS> should be set to for my fonts? Also, what is the list of possible
BS> values for these attributes?
BS> Many thanks.
BS> -- Bennett
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