From: Bob Stayton (bobs@sagehill.net)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 13:28:07 PST
My Windows XP box has four Palatino TrueType files (no small caps, though)
in c:\Windows\fonts . If you run XEP on the Windows box, you can configure
it to use those fonts. There might be other fonts in there you might find
useful.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "John W. Shipman" <john@nmt.edu>
To: "XEP Support" <xep-support@renderx.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 9:25 AM
Subject: [xep-support] General fonts question
> We're converting from FOP to XEP for our in-house DocBook->PDF
> toolchain. I'm very happy so far except for the small number of
> built-in fonts.
>
> Here's our release data, just for completeness (with Modular
> Stylesheets release 1.65.1):
>
> XEP - XSL Formatting Engine for Paged Media
> Academic Edition
>
> Version 3.7.3
> February 9, 2004
>
> Somehow, PDF files built by FOP seem to know about Palatino, but
> XEP does not. I'm not the package installer or maintainer here,
> but our local sysadmins are stumped.
>
> The information in the XEP User Guide about how to install fonts
> is quite clear, but we don't seem to have the requisite files.
> Somehow, Acrobat Reader and the printers can view and print files
> coming out of FOP that use Palatino. Either they're using the
> built-in fonts correctly, or the font files are squirreled away
> somewhere we don't know about.
>
> We're a state-underfunded university and always trying to do
> things on the cheap here, so I'd prefer less than perfect
> public-domain fonts over expensive purchased fonts, whenever
> possible. What are our options?
>
> * Is there some magic configuration thing we can tweak so that
> AcroRead and the printers use whatever font source they're
> currently using?
>
> * Are there reasonably decent public-domain fonts out there?
>
> * If the only choice is to purchase them, whose should we buy?
>
> At the moment I need only a small number of fonts:
>
> Palatino: regular, italic, bold, bold italic, small-caps
> Lucida Typewriter: regular, italic, bold, bold italic
>
> I'd appreciate any suggestions.
>
> Cordially,
> John Shipman (john@nmt.edu), Applications Specialist, NM Tech Computer
Center,
> Speare 128, Socorro, NM 87801, (505) 835-5950, http://www.nmt.edu/~john
> ``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.'' --Dave Farber
>
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