fop: using fonts

[Arnaud Vandyck]

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Gordon Haverland wrote:
> First off, you might as well close 300884.  There is no sense 
> keeping a bug report about me whining about documentation open 
> for 200+ days.

I've just upload a package with your readme file.

> This sort of relates to 292656, which is a bit older.

I've created a wrapper script for fop-ttfreader (and a manpage)

> A lot of applications I have here can find the Palatino font which 
> I have installed.  Fop is not one of them.  The time has come 
> where I need fop to be able to use Palatino (if it can).
> 
> So, unless you get back to me soon about some already provided 
> functionality (I can't find anything), I am going to write a perl 
> script to ask defoma for a list of font files, and then for the 
> type1 and TrueType fonts in that list (which I expect is all of 
> them?), I am going to use TTFReader to build a fop font metrics 
> file for each font found, and a "userconfig.xml" file.  I would 
> imagine such a global config file should be in the system some 
> place, but I have no idea where it should go.  But, once this is 
> done, I'll send you a copy.

If you need an application to convert ttf to xml, then, you can use
fop-ttfreader, otherwise, you can work on your script and I could
integrate it in fop if it's useful.

> Does this sound reasonable/useful?  Any input you think might be 
> handy?

Thanks for your work,

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