Re: [Swftools-common] font problems / pdf2swf / os x

[Matthias Kramm]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:17:31AM +0100, Markus Kuhnert wrote:
> pdf2swf doesn't accept any of the fonts we're using by putting them into the
> font folder (or specifying a folder containing these). I've even tried to
> convert them to ttf but everything is garbled then.
> 
> most (95%) of the fonts we're using are Mac Postscript Fonts/suitcases.

What file extension do those fonts have? pdf2swf currently looks only
for files with the extension .pfa, .pfb, .ttf.
You might get away with renaming (not converting!) your fonts to .ttf
or .pfa, as I believe freetype doesn't take the extension into account
when determining the font format.
But please let me know what these fonts are called anyway, so I can add
that extension to the list.

> I've also tried the "-s forceType0Fonts=1"-option (force use of embedded
> fonts), which unfortunately only works for TrueType and OpenType-fonts and
> looks pretty good, even works for chinese fonts. If there is also a
> PostScript font embedded, the font looks garbled (and pdf2swf spits out some
> errors too, like " Didn't find character 'i' (c=73,u=105) in current charset
> (XIDDLW+HelveticaNeue-Light, 36 characters)")...

The next development snapshot of swftools will most probably handle
those fonts better.

Greetings

Matthias