[xep-support] True-Type-Fonts

[Alexander Peshkov]

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 at 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 can´t 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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