RE: [Jgen-devel] FOP, Fonts, Frustration.

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

Ack!

I just threw in a temporary flashfile to use as the additional argument to
FontDef.load() and it works fine. It even seems to be embeding the fontdefs in
the generated SWF correctly. Not what I expected.

=]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jge...@li...
> [mailto:jge...@li...]On Behalf Of James Taylor
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 10:51 AM
> To: jge...@li...
> Subject: [Jgen-devel] FOP, Fonts, Frustration.
>
>
> 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
>
>
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