Re: [xep-support] True-Type-Fonts

From: Marc Oliver Thoma (thoma@inside-online.de)
Date: Fri Jun 11 2004 - 04:45:31 PDT

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    Thanks! That works fine!

    Marc
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Alexander Peshkov" <peshkov@renderx.com>
    To: "Marc Oliver Thoma" <xep-support@renderx.com>
    Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 2:41 PM
    Subject: Re: [xep-support] True-Type-Fonts

    > Hello Marc,
    >
    > Helvetica is a standard font and XEP do not embed it. Your font
    > configuration for ArialMT defines that it should be embedded and
    > subsetted (note that <font> have 'subset' property that is 'true' by
    > default) therefore XEP embeds subset of ArialMT into generated PDFs.
    >
    > Adobe Acrobat version 5 and older have problems combining documents,
    > which include subsets of the same font
    (http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/2e42e.htm)
    > That's what you are experiencing.
    > So you have two options:
    > 1) Upgrade to Adobe Acrobat 6 in which this problem was fixed.
    > 2) Turn off subsetting in the font configuration:
    > <font name="ArialMT"
    > ttf="C:\WINNT\Fonts\arial.ttf"
    > embed="true"
    > subset="false">
    > <alias name="Arial"/>
    > </font>
    >
    > Note that with subsetting turned off resulting PDFs will became
    > larger.
    >
    > Best regards,
    > Alexander Peshkov mailto:peshkov@renderx.com
    > RenderX
    >
    > MOT> Hello,
    >
    > MOT> i have the following problem:
    >
    > MOT> I use arial as font and this is my fonts.xml
    >
    > MOT> ...
    > MOT> <font name="ArialMT"
    > MOT> ttf="C:\WINNT\Fonts\arial.ttf">
    > MOT> <embed="true">
    > MOT> <alias name="Arial"/>
    > MOT> </font>
    > MOT> ...
    >
    > MOT> Bold, italic and bolditalic is embeded in the same way. So far so
    good. The
    > MOT> fonts work fine and are embedet in the output-pdf-file.
    > MOT> But here comes the problem: When i try to put two or more of the
    > MOT> xep-genererted pdf-files in one. I become an error-message. I use
    Adobe
    > MOT> Acrobat 5.0 (the "wirter" not the reader). The error message is in
    german,
    > MOT> so i will try to translate it (sorry for it :-))) ) "This documents
    contains
    > MOT> fontsubgroups with the same name and canīt be combined".
    >
    > MOT> When i use Helvetica evrything works fine. Our customer wants to have
    > MOT> Arial...
    >
    > MOT> Can u help? Any ideas are welcome.
    >
    > MOT> Thankfully Marc
    >
    >
    >
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