[xep-support] True-Type-Fonts

Marc Oliver Thoma thoma at inside-online.de
Fri Jun 11 04:45:31 PDT 2004


Thanks! That works fine!

Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Peshkov" <peshkov at renderx.com>
To: "Marc Oliver Thoma" <xep-support at renderx.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [xep-support] True-Type-Fonts


> 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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