RE: Fonts on Unix

Other than the built-in fonts all the others should be embedded including
T1.
The installation place of the fonts in Unix have the same problem as in
Windows, you can make some educated guesses but it's always OS dependent and
Java has no way of knowing it.

Best Regards,
Paulo Soares

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Benson [SMTP:gudnabrsam@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 15:09
> To:   Dimiceli, John - OSHA
> Cc:   itext-questions
> Subject:      RE: [iText-questions] Fonts on Unix
> 
> 1 and 2 sound right (although I wouldn't think there
> is truly a concept of font "installation" in a basic
> Unix environment, hence my use of the word "add" as in
> "have the file present"), but honestly, your final
> statement is beyond my experience.  Fortunately, in my
> travels through the iText universe I have never yet
> had to deal with fonts other than those included
> within iText... :)
> 
> -Matt
> 
> --- "Dimiceli, John - OSHA" <Dimiceli.John@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Matt - OK, the issues are becoming clearer...
> > 
> > 1. Fonts may have licenses. (Amazing what I take for
> > granted on Windows.)
> > 2. The fonts must be installed somewhere on my UNIX
> > OS, then the file
> > referenced in BaseFont.createFont.
> > 
> > I assume if using anything other than a TYPE 1 font,
> > the safe thing is to
> > embed the font in the document to ensure the
> > document renders as developed.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Benson [mailto:gudnabrsam@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 9:55 AM
> > To: Dimiceli, John - OSHA; 'itext'
> > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Fonts on Unix
> > 
> > 
> > Add some?  If you install ghostPcl you could get a
> > lot
> > of (pretty much) openly-licensed fonts that way...
> > downside:  they are installed in /windows/fonts.
> > 
> > -Matt
> > 
> > --- "Dimiceli, John - OSHA" <Dimiceli.John@xxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > How do I use different fonts on a UNIX machine
> > that
> > > may not have the
> > > extensive font library normally available to
> > > Windows?
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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