Embedding Fonts

Post by **stuerdan** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:41 pm

Hello

I have a problem with a font (HelveticaNeue Roman). I'm using FOP and Cocoon. On my machine i can create the PDF and the font is also correct. But when i save the PDF file and open it on another machine i get an error message "unable to find/create the font HelveticaNeue Roman)" and the characters are shown as "dots".

The appropriate part of my config file is:

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<font metrics-file="C:/Programme/Tomcat/webapps/cocoon/fop-fonts/HLR_____.PFM.xml" kerning="yes" embed-file="C:/PSFONTS/PFM/HLR_____.PFM">

			<font-triplet name="HelveticaRoman" style="normal" weight="normal"/>

		</font>

Is there a possibility to embed a font completly into the pdf document so that it is correct shown on another machine which don't have installed the font?

Thanks!!

Post by **sorin_ristache** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 10:01 am

Hi stuerdan,

The HelveticaNeue Roman font is a PostScript Type 1 font not a TrueType font. That means in the embed-file attribute you must specify the actual font data file not the font metrics file as you did in your FOP configuration file. From the Apache FOP site:

When setting the embed-file attribute for Type 1 fonts, be sure to specify the PFB (actual font data), not PFM (font metrics) file that you used to generate the XML font metrics file.

Regards,
Sorin