[xep-support] Using CJK AFMs

Alexei Gagarinov agagarinov at renderx.com
Fri Sep 17 07:13:07 PDT 2004


Hello Chris,

> What can I do to accomplish what I described?

There is no way to make the current XEP version work with AFMs for CJK
fonts.
You should have an Adobe's Asian font itself on PC. Sorry for inconvenience.
We will consider your message as a request for enhancement.

With best regards,
  Alexei Gagarinov,
RenderX

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Wong" <cwong at idiominc.com>
To: <xep-support at renderx.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 5:44 PM
Subject: RE: [xep-support] Using CJK AFMs


> What can I do to accomplish what I described?
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexei Gagarinov [mailto:agagarinov at renderx.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 5:04 AM
> To: xep-support at renderx.com
> Subject: Re: [xep-support] Using CJK AFMs
>
>
> Hello Chris,
>
> AFMs for CID fonts (for example, Adobe's Asian font packs) contain CIDs in
> 'N' entries. The current XEP's font processing scheme treats them as glyph
> names and then maps the names to Unicode values according to AGL 2.0. So
the
> resulting PDF will always display blank characters in such a case.
>
> With best regards,
>   Alexei Gagarinov
> RenderX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Wong" <cwong at idiominc.com>
> To: <xep-support at renderx.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:49 PM
> Subject: [xep-support] Using CJK AFMs
>
>
> > I'm trying to get XEP working with Adobe's Asian font packs. This works
> fine
> > using the instructions from the user's guide if I install the font file
> > itself (e.g. STSongStd-Light-Acro.otf). But due to the bulk of the font
> > files and the dubious legality of redistributing Adobe's font packs, I
> tried
> > generating the font metrics files (*.afm) from the font using fontforge
> and
> > pointing XEP to those. The entries in font.xml look like:
> >
> >    <font name="STSongStd-Light-Acro"
> >          afm="CIDFont/STSongStd-Light-Acro.afm"
> >          adobe-encoding="UniGB-UCS2-H"
> >          adobe-ordering="GB1"
> >          adobe-supplement="2"
> >          embed="false">
> >      <alias name="STSongStd"/>
> >    </font>
> >
> >    <font name="STSongStd-Light-Acro,Bold"
> >          afm="CIDFont/STSongStd-Light-Acro.afm"
> >          adobe-encoding="UniGB-UCS2-H"
> >          adobe-ordering="GB1"
> >          adobe-supplement="2"
> >          embed="false">
> >      <alias name="STSongStd-Bold"/>
> >      <alias name="STSongStd-Light-Acro-Bold"/>
> >    </font>
> >
> > While XEP happily accepts these entries, the resulting PDFs show blank
> where
> > the Chinese (in this case) characters should appear. Shouldn't XEP be
able
> > to use AFMs for these fonts the way it does the Adobe base fonts?
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Chris
>
>
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