[xep-support] Re: How to embed Helvetica so it won't cause issue at PDF/A creation

[Vajda, Gabor (Ext)]

Dear Kevin,

If I select the option 2 then the only thing I have to do is to replace this
<fonts xmlns="http://www.renderx.com/XEP/config" xml:base="fonts/" default-family="Helvetica">

With this

<fonts xmlns="http://www.renderx.com/XEP/config" xml:base="fonts/" default-family="Arial">

Thanks in advance!


Gabor Vajda
Dachs Support

gabor.vajda at novartis.com<mailto:gabor.vajda at novartis.com>


From: xep-support-bounces at renderx.com [mailto:xep-support-bounces at renderx.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Brown
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 7:40 PM
To: 'RenderX Community Support List'
Subject: [xep-support] Re: How to embed Helvetica so it won't cause issue at PDF/A creation

Gabor:

RenderX only provides the AFM of the base fonts. You can do either of the following:


1)      Obtain the necessary components of the actual Helvetica font and set up XEP.xml to embed that font. You will need to license PFA or PFB and refer to http://www.renderx.com/reference.html#Configuring_Type-1

2)      Use a different font that you have metrics for and can embed (possibly Arial or FreeSerif or whatever you wish). In this case you would modify XEP.xml to state that font is the default font and add that font to xep.xml.

Kevin Brown
RenderX


From: xep-support-bounces at renderx.com [mailto:xep-support-bounces at renderx.com] On Behalf Of Vajda, Gabor (Ext)
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 4:35 AM
To: xep-support at renderx.com
Subject: [xep-support] How to embed Helvetica so it won't cause issue at PDF/A creation

Hello,

I would like to ask your help.

We support an archiving system which archive from a lot of different sources into PDF/A.

There is a form among the sources which is Rich Text type where users can enter text and format the font. There are some given fonts there, but it is also allowed to the users to copy/paste into this area. The font attributes are kept in this copy/paste case.

Sometimes the text is with Microsoft Sans Serif font (or the source system think it is but the real font is font-family="AdvOT2e364b11, serif")

Microsoft Sans Serif is not defined in XEP.XML so CTS convert it into Helvetica as the default font family is Helvetica.

Unfortunately it looks this Helvetica is not embedded into the created PDF and it cause issue when the archiving system try to create PDF/A from it.

I would like to ask how can I set in XEP.XML to embed Helvetica into PDF in these cases?

Of course one of the solutions would be to include Microsoft Sans Serif into XEP.XML but this is not solution for those exotic fonts (font-family="AdvOT2e364b11, serif") which is thought to Microsoft Sans Serif by the source system.


Thanks in advance!

Gabor Vajda

gabor.vajda at novartis.com<mailto:gabor.vajda at novartis.com>





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