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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes, in this case, it is too simple.
8^)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>XEP ships with the font metrics for the base 14
fonts (the .afm files in the fonts subdirectory of XEP's installation area), but
it does not include the font outlines (the .pfb files), which must be available
to XEP in order to embed the fonts. With just the .afm files, XEP
can position the characters properly, but the actual glyph must
be available on the rendering device to show it. As far as I know, most
PDF browsers and printers have the base 14 font glyphs, but apparently that is
not your case. For Zapf Dingbats, whoever is generating the PDF must
purchase the font from Adobe to get the font outlines so they can be
embedded.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>Bob Stayton<BR>Sagehill Enterprises<BR><A
href="mailto:bobs@sagehill.net">bobs@sagehill.net</A></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=cutter1994@gmail.com href="mailto:cutter1994@gmail.com">Cutter</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=xep-support@renderx.com
href="mailto:xep-support@renderx.com">xep-support@renderx.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:11
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [xep-support]
ZapfDingbats.afm</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">If
that is the case is the solution as simple as changing this
line<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><font-group
label=”Base 14” embed=”false”><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">To<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><font-group
label=”Base 14” embed=”true”><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">That
seems too simple.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> <A
href="mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com">owner-xep-support@renderx.com</A>
[mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B><A
href="mailto:ben.m.wynn@rrd.com">ben.m.wynn@rrd.com</A><BR><B>Sent:</B>
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:00 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
xep-support@renderx.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [xep-support]
ZapfDingbats.afm<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Hi Cutter,</SPAN>
<BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">From
reading both your emails, your problem lies in the default configuration of
your 'xep.xml'... which includes ZapfDingbats, but not as an embedded
font.</SPAN> <BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Your clients quoted
sentence is correct, as far as I know. A PDF file is not a raster image
like TIFF, any text data it includes must be rendered with a font...
That font must be made available to it somehow: either installed on the
system or embedded in the PDF itself.</SPAN> <BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The xep.xml
configuration file controls which fonts will be embedded in a pdf. The
default xep.xml configures a 'Base 14' set of fonts that are expected to be
available everywhere without embedding it, so to save space, do not embed it.
These fonts include Times, Helvetica, etc... and I believe
ZapfDingbats as well.</SPAN> <BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Your best bet is to
go reconfigure your (and your clients) xep.xml to embed the ZapfDingbats into
the PDF. Make sure you have license to embed it, I havn't looked at it
recently to know if it's public domain or otherwise freely distributable, but
it's one of the 'Base 14' that is expected to be available anywhere.</SPAN>
<BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">-Ben</SPAN>
<BR><BR><BR><o:p></o:p></P>
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<cutter1994@gmail.com></SPAN></B><SPAN
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owner-xep-support@renderx.com</SPAN> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P><SPAN
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10:52 PM</SPAN> <o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><BR><BR><BR>I am using XEP (unsure of the version #) to
create PDF from XSLT. The output looks correct on my system but when the
client runs the same XSLT/FO (using a different version of XEP, unsure what #)
none of the ZapfDingbats characters output. We have gone round and round
about this but currently the client is coming back with “If the font is not
embedded, the rendered file can only be viewed on systems that have the font
configured for use with viewing or printing the application.”
<BR>My understanding is, once the PDF is rendered, and unless it is then
reopened in some program capable of editing it, the PDF is set in stone.
So any PDF viewer on any machine (Linux, Mac, Windows) with any (or no)
fonts installed will show it as rendered. The problem with rendering the
font is located on the machine doing the rendering not the machines later
doing the viewing. Is this correct and could someone explain the quoted
sentence above with an example? <BR>What else might be making their rendering
not output the correct fonts while my output (using the exact same
transformations) renders correctly? <BR>Thanks!
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