Re: [xep-support] Type 1 font looses special characters

From: Lars Jørgen Tvedt (l.j.tvedt@edd.uio.no)
Date: Thu Sep 30 2004 - 06:36:19 PDT

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    Sorry, but by scanning the archives I finally found the answer in an answer
    from Nikolai Grigoriev (Mar 29, 2004).

    I will contact the company that sold me the font, and ask them to chech their
    software.

    Regards
    Lars Jørgen Tvedt

    At 15:01 30.09.2004 +0200, you wrote:
    >Hi!
    >
    >I am testing XEP as one of three different XSL-FO tools for rendering a
    >large Norwegian Dictionary at the University of Oslo, Norway into PDF.
    >
    >So far XEP seems to work, except that ehen we embed the font we are going
    >to use, the norwegian charachters æ, ø, å (aelig, oslash, aring), and a
    >lot of other characters, are not rendered in the pdf-file. The spacing is
    >correct, and if I copy a part of the text, and paste it into another
    >application (notepad), the characters appear correctly, so for some reason
    >it is only the glyph that is not rendered in PDF.
    >
    >If I embed the whole font, or do not embed the font at all, the wrong
    >glyphs are displayed, but still a copy and paste will produce correct text
    >in notepad.
    >
    >It seems that XEP for some reason misreads the position of the glyphs.
    >
    >I have also tried to add a glyph-list, but with the same result.
    >
    >When I render the same fo-file using the Apache FOP, the document are
    >rendered correctly.
    >
    >The "afm" and "pfm"-files are rathers large compared with other
    >font-files, so I guess there may be an offset-problem. Can anyone confirm
    >this, or even better, give me a workaround?
    >
    >The font we are using is copyrighted, but if needed I have got permission
    >to supply RenderX with a copy of the font on a number of conditions.
    >
    >Regards
    >Lars Jørgen Tvedt
    >
    >*****
    >
    >StartFontMetrics 2.0
    >Comment UniqueID 5116344
    >Comment Panose 2 0 5 0 8 0 0 2 0 4
    >FullName LexitestNo1ATxt
    >FontName LexitestNo1ATxt
    >FamilyName LexitestNo1ATxt
    >Weight Regular
    >Notice \251 Copyright by The Ensched\216 Font Foundry, 1992. All Rights
    >reserved. Lexicon is a registered TradeMark of TEFF. Lexicon\250 is
    >protected by copyright law. Unauthorized copying or modification of any
    >of its data is illegal.
    >Version 001.000
    >IsFixedPitch false
    >ItalicAngle 0.00
    >FontBBox -290 -232 1113 891
    >Ascender 734
    >Descender -173
    >XHeight 491
    >CapHeight 672
    >UnderlinePosition -127
    >UnderlineThickness 50
    >StdHW 35
    >StdVW 99
    >EncodingScheme AdobeStandardEncoding
    >StartCharMetrics 226
    >C 5 ; WX 340 ; N breve ; B 10 562 330 714 ;
    >C 6 ; WX 340 ; N dotaccent ; B 107 -182 232 -57 ;
    >
    >***************
    >
    >
    >
    >-----------------------------------------
    >Lars Jørgen Tvedt
    >Eining for digital dokumentasjon (EDD), Universitetet i Oslo
    >Postboks 1123 Blindern, N-0317 OSLO, Norway
    >Telefon (+47) 22 85 49 84, Fax (+47) 22 85 49 83
    >http://www.dok.hf.uio.no/index.html
    >
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    Eining for digital dokumentasjon (EDD), Universitetet i Oslo
    Postboks 1123 Blindern, N-0317 OSLO, Norway
    Telefon (+47) 22 85 49 84, Fax (+47) 22 85 49 83
    http://www.dok.hf.uio.no/index.html

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