[xep-support] Type 1 font looses special characters

[Lars Jørgen Tvedt]

Hi!

I am testing XEP as one of three different XSL-FO tools for rendering a 
large Norwegian Dictionary at the University of Oslo, Norway into PDF.

So far XEP seems to work, except that ehen we embed the font we are going 
to use, the norwegian charachters æ, ø, å (aelig, oslash, aring), and a lot 
of other characters, are not rendered in the pdf-file. The spacing is 
correct, and if I copy a part of the text, and paste it into another 
application (notepad), the characters appear correctly, so for some reason 
it is only the glyph that is not rendered in PDF.

If I embed the whole font, or do not embed the font at all, the wrong 
glyphs are displayed, but still a copy and paste will produce correct text 
in notepad.

It seems that XEP for some reason misreads the position of the glyphs.

I have also tried to add a glyph-list, but with the same result.

When I render the same fo-file using the Apache FOP, the document are 
rendered correctly.

The "afm" and "pfm"-files are rathers large compared with other font-files, 
so I guess there may be an offset-problem. Can anyone confirm this, or even 
better, give me a workaround?

The font we are using is copyrighted, but if needed I have got permission 
to supply RenderX with a copy of the font on a number of conditions.

Regards
Lars Jørgen Tvedt

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StartFontMetrics 2.0
Comment UniqueID 5116344
Comment Panose 2 0 5 0 8 0 0 2 0 4
FullName LexitestNo1ATxt
FontName LexitestNo1ATxt
FamilyName LexitestNo1ATxt
Weight Regular
Notice \251 Copyright by The Ensched\216 Font Foundry, 1992.  All Rights 
reserved.  Lexicon is a registered TradeMark of TEFF.  Lexicon\250 is 
protected by copyright law.  Unauthorized copying or modification of any of 
its data is illegal.
Version 001.000
IsFixedPitch false
ItalicAngle 0.00
FontBBox -290 -232 1113 891
Ascender 734
Descender -173
XHeight 491
CapHeight 672
UnderlinePosition -127
UnderlineThickness 50
StdHW 35
StdVW 99
EncodingScheme AdobeStandardEncoding
StartCharMetrics 226
C 5 ; WX 340 ; N breve ; B 10 562 330 714 ;
C 6 ; WX 340 ; N dotaccent ; B 107 -182 232 -57 ;

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Lars Jørgen Tvedt
Eining for digital dokumentasjon (EDD), Universitetet i Oslo
Postboks 1123 Blindern, N-0317 OSLO, Norway
Telefon (+47) 22 85 49 84,    Fax (+47) 22 85 49 83
http://www.dok.hf.uio.no/index.html               


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