RE: Fonts on Unix

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dimiceli, John - OSHA [SMTP:Dimiceli.John@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 15:45
> To:   'Paulo Soares'
> Cc:   itext-questions; 'Matt Benson'
> Subject:      RE: [iText-questions] Fonts on Unix
> 
> Paulo - I've been through many of the iText Javadocs on fonts and cannot
> find a definition of the "built-in" fonts. 
> 
        The fonts are defined in BaseFont and other places. The definition
in BaseFont:

        public static final String COURIER = "Courier";
        public static final String COURIER_BOLD = "Courier-Bold";
        public static final String COURIER_OBLIQUE = "Courier-Oblique";
        public static final String COURIER_BOLDOBLIQUE =
"Courier-BoldOblique";
        public static final String HELVETICA = "Helvetica";
        public static final String HELVETICA_BOLD = "Helvetica-Bold";
        public static final String HELVETICA_OBLIQUE = "Helvetica-Oblique";
        public static final String HELVETICA_BOLDOBLIQUE =
"Helvetica-BoldOblique";
        public static final String SYMBOL = "Symbol";
        public static final String TIMES_ROMAN = "Times-Roman";
        public static final String TIMES_BOLD = "Times-Bold";
        public static final String TIMES_ITALIC = "Times-Italic";
        public static final String TIMES_BOLDITALIC = "Times-BoldItalic";
        public static final String ZAPFDINGBATS = "ZapfDingbats";

> Are built-in fonts built-in in the sense they are native to Acrobat pdf
> files or are they native to iText?  
> 
        Any PDF reader implementation must have this fonts. It's required by
Adobe.

> What are the built-in and T1 fonts?
> 
        Built-in fonts are T1 fonts that are special in the sense that are
known and available by all the readers. The names are those above. You can
also use and embedd other T1 fonts, even the built-in ones if you have the
files.

        Best Regards,
        Paulo Soares

> Thanks to both Paulo and Matt for helping. 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Paulo Soares [ <mailto:psoares@xxxxxxxxxxx>] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:34 AM 
> To: 'Matt Benson'; Dimiceli, John - OSHA 
> Cc: itext-questions 
> Subject: RE: [iText-questions] 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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