[cl-pdf-devel] Problems with unicode fonts

[Marc Battyani]

 "Jonathon McKitrick" <jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> wrote:

> I'm having issues with unicode fonts, and I have a deadline looming, so 
> I'd
> appreciate any help.
>
> All I want to do is find a simple helvetica or arial font that supports 
> all
> the latin1 characters, as well as copyright/trademark symbols.  I used 
> ttf2p1
> on a utf8 TT font, and I got a .afm file, not .ufm.  I tried it anyway, 
> and
> the pdf output for that font was garbage... little gray squares.

Using an unicode font is probably not the correct annswer to your problerm. 
Anyway there is no utf8 fonts. utf8 is an encoding.

> How do I
> 1.  Select a utf8 font that will work with the following steps.
> 2.  Convert said font to something cl-pdf will use.
> 3.  Read said font into cl-pdf.
> 4.  Generate pdf output from utf8 input.
>
> I'd happily RTFM here, but there's very little FM to R.  I read the list
> archives back to when unicode was introduced, and that led to the problem 
> in
> the paragraph above.

Well unicode is the only thing for which I wrote some help. Look at 
readme-unicode.txt

> Has anyone else solved this problem who would be willing to point me in 
> the
> right direction?

Well, have you tested Dmitriy's solution?

> If all else fails, I'll apply Dmitriy's patches and try that.

Marc