Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide

[Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Brent Smith">
>
> > What is the licensing policy for the said font and where can I find it?
> > This is something I've been meaning to do, but haven't got around to yet.
> > Right now it uses the default fonts for PDF, which makes the PDF size
> > considerably smaller.
>
>
> Should be shipped in any modern distribution.
>
>   http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
>
> - Jeff

Here is my attempt at this:

http://www.gnome.org/~bmsmith/system-admin-guide-bitstream.pdf

There are a number of problems I see:
1) There is no italic serif font shipped by bitstream.
2) Due to a limitation of FOP, only glyphs used in the truetype font are
embedded in the PDF (no codepage information).  Therefore searching,
indexing and cut-n-paste do not work properly[1].

I got around 2) by specifying the ansi encoding when generating the font
metrics which seems to work ok, but 1) is still a blocker.

Do you know why there is no italic serif font?

[1]http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.20.5/fonts.html#embedding

Thanks,

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Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>
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