Re: [Swftools-common] pdf2swf - font approximation

[Matthias Kramm]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:31:05AM +0200, Michael Hansen wrote:
> However, I've been wondering if you use somekind of 'best match' tool for 
> font substitution? In all my experiments the tools replaces 'unknown' fonts 
> with Times-Roman, which is not always the best choice.

If you compile fontconfig in, you'll get better substitutions most of
the time- the font will then be selected to match the family (serif,
sans-serif etc.) and style (italic, bold) attributes of the
to-be-replaced-font.

On Linux or Mac, that is- fontconfig support is broken right now on
Windows.

Greetings

Matthias