[xep-support] XEP and fonts on Unix (AIX)

[Nikolai Grigoriev]

Chris,

> Should I be able to simply copy my (Windows) TTF fonts 
> over to a directory on the Aix box and point to that directory 
> in fonts.xml?

Yes. XEP does all the work for parsing TTF itself: there is no
dependence of system facilities. TTFs are just binary files; if XEP
is able to locate it, there should be no difference in the formatting
result between Windows and AIX.  The files should be identical
to the last byte; if they are different, then something is
wrong in your installation. In the latter case, I would like
to see a couple of files produced from the same source on
two platforms. Please send them off-list to support at renderx.com;
I will try to figure out the cause for them being different.

Regards,
Nikolai Grigoriev
RenderX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Braddock" <smapdi636 at hotmail.com>
To: <xep-support at renderx.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 2:36 AM
Subject: [xep-support] XEP and fonts on Unix (AIX)


Hello.  I'm in the process of migrating an application from Win32 to Aix 
4.3.

It seems to me XEP font configuration is the same on both operating systems. 
  My question really is more of one regarding Aix and fonts in general.

Should I be able to simply copy my (Windows) TTF fonts over to a directory 
on the Aix box and point to that directory in fonts.xml?

I'm asking because I've already tried this and gotten some strange results 
(text is not rendering properly).

I'm wondering if Unix only supports certain types of fonts, or if conversion 
is necessary or ???

Thanks

Chris Braddock

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