[Jgen-devel] FOP, Fonts, Frustration.

[James T. <jt...@ny...>]

Yeeha!

I started looking at taking the FOP stuff that was just submitted and making
it fit better with JGenerator. My first goal is to create a "RenderFOCommand"
which will render a FO file and insert it into a swt. It seemed the most
sensible thing to do was to adapt SWFRenderer and SWFFlashFile to create a
script rather than a flash file. However in the process of converting these
things I ran into one problem -- fonts. It seems that when external fonts are
loaded they must be loaded into a file. Is this true?

I'd like to be able to load external fonts arbitrarily, and then at generation
time have all fonts referenced by items be included. This would make
everything really easy.

The other alternative I see is to render to FO into a file ( as is being done
now ) and then detach the script and fonts and merge them into the file
containing the template. This seems a bit uglier to me, but would work.

Dmitry, I know you've been doing a lot with fonts lately, any thoughts on how
to proceed?

Thanks,
James