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

[Kevin Brown]

Gabor:

 

As long as you have Arial in xep.xml somewhere and it is set to embed the
font. Just FYI though, Arial is a pretty large font to embed especially if
you need all the alternatives (normal, bold, italic, bold-italic). You may
wish to examine alternatives to see what is best for long term storage.

 

Kevin Brown

RenderX

 

From: Vajda, Gabor (Ext) [mailto:gabor.vajda at novartis.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 11:23 AM
To: kevin at renderx.com; RenderX Community Support List
Subject: RE: [xep-support] Re: How to embed Helvetica so it won't cause
issue at PDF/A creation

 

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

 

 <mailto:gabor.vajda at novartis.com> 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

 

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

 

 

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