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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Hebrew Characters in PDFs
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:50:00PM +0200, Tobias Reif wrote: > Norman Walsh wrote: > > You need to get a font that contains the Unicode characters and > > configure your print tool to use that font. > > It would be so great if all FO=>PDF converters would find the available > fonts by themselves, just like good web browsers do. > > Like with CSS I want to specify a list of fonts ordered by stylistic > preference, and if a required glyph can't be found in any of those, the > tool should go look through the other fonts available on the box. I wish it was that easy for print output. For HTML output, the browser knows where the available screen fonts are because the browser is configured into the display system. But an FO processor would not automatically know where to look for font metric files that are usable for print output. Even if it finds a font file, it needs to know if it can be legally embedded in PDF output. On the other hand, once a font is configured into an FO processor, it would be nice if it would automatically use it. That is, when a Unicode character is not found in any of the fonts specified in the current font-family property, then the processor could scan through other configured fonts. On the third hand, where are all the Unicode fonts that have all the glyphs, so we don't have to juggle fonts? Not practical, I suppose. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887 email: bobs@sco.com
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