Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Hebrew Characters in PDFs

[Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>]

Dave Pawson wrote:
 > At 11:02 28/09/2003 +0200, Tobias Reif wrote:
 >
 >>> For HTML output, the browser knows where the available
 >>> screen fonts are because the browser is configured into
 >>> the display system.
 >>
 >> An quite analogously the FO renderer should be able to find the
 >> available fonts by itself, no?
 >
 > No Toby.
 >
 > Not that straightforward.

Well with all due respect, but a post like this is neither informative 
nor helpful in any way.

If FOP requires me to extract font metrics from a TTF file with a tool 
supplied by FOP, then FOP should be able to do that automatically by 
itself, AFAICS.
It also should be able to search for required glyphs, in all fonts 
available on the system, AFAICS. (on Windows just scan the typical font 
dir for example)

Now my question was: What technical facts keep it from doing that?

Tobi

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