[xep-support] Type 1 font looses special characters

[Lars Jørgen Tvedt]

Sorry, but by scanning the archives I finally found the answer in an answer 
from Nikolai Grigoriev (Mar 29, 2004).

I will contact the company that sold me the font, and ask them to chech their
software.

Regards
Lars Jørgen Tvedt

At 15:01 30.09.2004 +0200, you wrote:
>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
>
>*****
>
>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 ;
>
>***************
>
>
>
>-----------------------------------------
>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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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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