[FOP-1588] Feature request: Ability to use adobe (japanese) fonts without embedding them.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.5
• Component/s: font/unqualified
• Environment: Operating System: Windows XP; Platform: PC
• External issue ID: 46130
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Maciej Datka
• Created: 30/Oct/08 05:09
• Updated: 16/Dec/12 08:20

Description

I would need feature: Ability to use adobe (japanese) fonts without embedding them.

Currently to create asian PDF one has to embed the font into PDF or know TTF font name installed on system (detected by autodetect).

I want to use fop in a distributed package - and I don't think there is font I can freely redistribute. I also don't know the fonts used on end user system.

Anyway iText Lowagie PDF creation Library can create a PDF using HeiseiMin-W3 and PDF it creates when viewed by adober reader without asian fonts triggers dialog to install adobe font pack. After this PDF is perfectly viewable.

It actually uses only properties (similar to font-metrics xml?) of HeiseiMin-W3 font and probably CMap files.

I see 2 problems:

• no way of generation font metrics from adobe OTF fonts?
• creating PDF in a way that reader will know which font it should use and download if necessary

I would be willing to do the required changes although I would need some
guidance. I am pretty new to the PDF and fonts so I might even not see some obvious things. I need this in about 1 week.

I am currently setting up FOP trunk project and I will try to familiarize myself with the source code.