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

[Markus Kuhnert]

Hi Matthias!

I think its the same problem Philippe reports.

This is what Acrobat says about the font in document properties/fonts:

HelveticaNeueCE-UltraLight (Eingebettete Untergruppe)
Typ: Type 1 (CID)
Kodierung: Identity-H


Unfortunately fonts on the Mac don't have any file extensions. Additionally,
those fonts are stored in most cases in "suitcases", which is different than
on PC. I've added two screenshots.

Great would be if there was a way pdf2swf would force use the embedded
fonts.

I've found a workaround though: I've simply converted those fonts with
fontlabs TransType Pro (www.fontlab.com) to a ttf font and stored them in
the pdf2swf font folder.


greetings!

-Markus


Am 06.03.2005 15:59 Uhr schrieb "Matthias Kramm" unter <address@hidden>:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
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