Re: [xep-support] Generating PDF, Embedding all fonts

From: Werner Donné <werner.donne@re.be>
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 10:03:29 PST

Ah! There are differences between Mac TTF and Windows TTF.
I have loaded the Monaca.dfont file into FontForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fontforge/)
and saved it as TrueType (not Mac). With this it works
fine and Acrobat Reader says the fonts are embedded and subsetted.

Werner.

Tommy Nordgren wrote:
>
> On 13 dec 2007, at 14.18, Werner Donné wrote:
>
>> I can't run XEP with those fonts. I tried Monaco.dfont and the
>> message is:
>>
>> Unsupported file format or broken file found reading font metric from
>> file:/var/local/XEP4/fonts/Monaco.dfont: Not a TrueType/OpenType file, or
>> unsupported TrueType version: 0.256
>>
>> I don't know what kind of fonts they are.
>>
>> Werner.
>>
>
> Both 'Linotype Font Explorer' and Apple's 'Font Book' claim that the
> fonts are truetype.
>
>
>> Tommy Nordgren wrote:
>>> On 13 dec 2007, at 09.24, Werner Donné wrote:
>>>> Hi Tommy,
>>>>
>>>> In your xep.xml file you have to add an element like this:
>>>>
>>>> <font-family name="AquaKana" embed="true" subset="true">
>>>> <font>
>>>> <font-data otf="/System/Library/Fonts/AquaKanaRegular.otf"/>
>>>> </font>
>>>> <font style="bold">
>>>> <font-data otf="/System/Library/Fonts/AquaKanaBold.otf"/>
>>>> </font>
>>>> </font-family>
>>>>
>>>> I would advice you to place such elements in a separate entity
>>>> and include the following to your xep.xml file:
>>>>
>>> The fonts I'm currently trying to embed are the base 14 fonts,
>>> stored in files with suffix .dfont
>>>> <!DOCTYPE config
>>>> [
>>>> <!ENTITY fonts SYSTEM "fonts.local.ent">
>>>> ]>
>>>>
>>>> <config xmlns...>
>>>>
>>>> &fonts;
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> </config>
>>>>
>>>> Now, when you upgrade XEP, you only have to put back the document
>>>> type declaration and the entity reference.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Werner.
>>>>
>>>> Tommy Nordgren wrote:
>>>>> How do I create and use a XEP configuration file, that uses the
>>>>> version of the
>>>>> standard fonts distributed with Mac OS X Leopard.
>>>>> No matter what I try, the preflight option in acrobat wil show that
>>>>> fonts are not embedded
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