Re: [xep-support] Configuring fonts from an otf file

I'm afraid you got our two emails mixed up. My problem is unlike Chris
Bowditch's, where he can map a font family to a specific ttf. My problem
is that there is only one font file (OTF), and specifying font weight
within that font file is problematic because XEP is using the comma as a
separator. So I can specify "AdobeSongStd-Light" as a font family name,
but I cannot set an alias to point to "AdobeSongStd-Light,Bold" because
XEP uses the comma as separator. I cannot rely on XEP to select a bold
font either, apparently, because:

<fo:inline font-weight="bold"
font-family="AdobeSongStd-Light">è¡¨æ ¼æ¸²æY"$(C</fo:inline>

Does not display the text as bold. I know that Adobe Reader can display
this font in bold: document properties dialog shows
"AdobeSongStd-Light,BoldItalic" in use. How can I get XEP to output
similar text? Have you ever gotten bold Chinese characters to display?
Thanks.

Chris

Alexei Gagarinov wrote:

>Just define 'font-family' element for each font name:
>
> <font-family name="Arial">
> <font><font-data ttf="Arial.ttf"/></font>
> </font-family>
> <font-family name="Arial-Bold">
> <font><font-data ttf="Arialbd.ttf"/></font>
> </font-family>
>
>Note that you had to use a real font-family name (maybe expressed through
>aliases) in XEP 3.x. But it was not always trivial to find this out.
>In XEP 4.x you can use any name as a value for the 'font-family' element.
>
>
>
>>I realise its probably bad practise to omit the font-weight attribute...
>>
>>
>
>I agree with this. :)
>
>Best regards,
> Alexei Gagarinov
>RenderX
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Bowditch" <bowditch_chris@hotmail.com>
>To: <xep-support@renderx.com>
>Cc: <gniven@thunderhead.com>
>Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 8:24 PM
>Subject: Re: [xep-support] Configuring fonts from an otf file
>
>
>
>
>>Christopher Wong wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I'm having trouble translating the old XEP 3.8 fonts.xml definitions of
>>>Asian languages to the new 4.2 xep.xml file. The reference manual is too
>>>sketchy to be of much help. Here's an example of the old style:
>>>
>>> <font name="STSong-Light-Acro,Bold"
>>> ttf="CIDFont/STSong-Light-Acro"
>>> adobe-encoding="UniGB-UCS2-H"
>>> adobe-ordering="GB1"
>>> adobe-supplement="2"
>>> embed="false">
>>> <alias name="STSong-Bold"/>
>>> <alias name="STSong-Light-Acro-Bold"/>
>>> </font>
>>>
>>>I don't see how this can be configured in the new style. Specifically,
>>>you cannot do something like:
>>>
>>> <font-family name="AdobeSongStd-Light,Bold">
>>> <font><font-data otf="CIDFont/AdobeSongStd-Light.otf"/></font>
>>> </font-family> <font-alias name="STSongStd-Bold"
>>>value="AdobeSongStd-Light,Bold"/>
>>>
>>>XEP will interpret the font-alias as naming two fonts
>>>"AdobeSongStd-Light" and "Bold", treating the comma as a separator. How
>>>does one configure XEP to use fonts from Adobe's font packs?
>>>
>>>
>>We have a very similar problem. I believe the 4.x version of XEP relies on
>>
>>
>the
>
>
>>presence of the font-weight attribute on FOs to determine which font
>>
>>
>element
>
>
>>to use inside the font-family.
>>
>>In 3.x, it was possible to set up different fonts with different weights
>>
>>
>and
>
>
>>rely on just the font-family name to select the correct one. For example;
>>
>><font name="Arial" ttf="Arial.ttf">
>></font>
>><font name="Arial-Bold" ttf="Arialbd.ttf">
>></font>
>>
>>Unfortunately there doesnt appear to be any way to map this approach into
>>
>>
>the
>
>
>>new file format. I realise its probably bad practise to omit the
>>
>>
>font-weight
>
>
>>attribute, but some of our customers have done this! And we really need an
>>automatic process to upgrade the old font configuration files.
>>
>>Chris
>>
>>
>>
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Received on Fri Feb 18 13:28:03 2005