[xep-support] Open type fonts and XEP

[Alexei Gagarinov]

Hello Robert,

Current version of XEP performs automatic font stretching/condensing as
required by 'font-stretch' value. Indeed, it make sence to use specially
designed font instead if there is one. This possibility become viable since
we have added support for OTF fonts because these fonts often include
separate outlines for condensed or other special font faces. We will
consider your question as a request for enhancement - adding 'font-stretch'
property to the font configuration could be usefull. The same applies to the
'font-variant' property. Thanks for the pointer.

Nevertheless you may use all of your fonts with the current version of XEP.
For example,  in order to make 'Minion Pro Caption' font working you need to
specify it as a separate font-family element in the XEP configuration file
like this:
      <font-family name="MinionPro-Capt">
        <font><font-data ttf="MinProCapt.otf"/></font>
      </font-family>
and then refer it in your XSL-FO document in the following way:
      <fo:block font-family="MinionPro-Capt">some text</fo:block>
Phrase "some text" should appear in 'Minion Pro Caption' font.

With regards,
  Alexei Gagarinov
RenderX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Voogdgeert" <rvoogdgeert at kabelfoon.nl>
To: <xep-support at renderx.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 2:45 PM
Subject: [xep-support] Open type fonts and XEP


> Dear RenerX support,
>
>
> I tried to get the OTF font `Minion Pro' working with DocBook while using
> XEP as FO processor. Als long as I don't use other fonts than Regular,
Bold
> and BoldItalic everything goes well. I can't get the many other fonts,
e.g.
> Caption, Condensed, Semibold, and so on, to work though.
>
> Problem is that the `style' and `weight' attributes are not `enough' to
> describe all possible fonts that are part of Adobe Minion Pro.
> (Font-variant is not supported yet by the current version of XEP according
> to the the table in their Reference Manual, although elswhere in the
> bodytext this attribute is dealt with... Anyhow this still would not cover
> all possible differnt fonts.) And creating other families like
> MinionPro-Capt for the Caption font, doesn't work either as the family
name
> is MinionPro. Whatever I tried, the fonts are not found by the processor.
>
> Any suggestions are welcome!
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Robert
>
>
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