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Subject: font rendering issue

sib

Posted: 26 Jul 2010, 03:12

Helo,
I am using the trial version of PD4ML(PHP wrapper). We are testing it out before purchasing the pro version. I have dumped all the font files that we are using in our report in the "/pd4ml/fonts" folder. I deleted the old "pd4fonts.properties" and the newly generated one looks like this:

#this is an autogenerated file. please remove manually any references to copyrighted fonts
#Mon Jul 26 06:03:36 IST 2010
Gotham\ Bold=Gotham-Bold.ttf
Gotham\ Bold\ Italic=Gotham-BoldItalic.ttf
Gotham\ Book=Gotham-Book.ttf
Gotham\ Book\ Italic=Gotham-BookItalic.ttf
KaiTi_GB2312=SIMKAI.TTF
MicrogrammaDBolExt=microgbe.ttf
MicrogrammaDMedExt=microgme.ttf
Myriad\ Pro=MyriadPro-Regular.otf
Myriad\ Pro\ Black=MyriadPro-Black.otf
Myriad\ Pro\ Black\ Italic=MyriadPro-BlackIt.otf
Myriad\ Pro\ Bold=MyriadPro-Bold.otf
Myriad\ Pro\ Bold\ Condensed=MyriadPro-BoldCond.otf
Myriad\ Pro\ Bold\ Condensed\ Italic=MyriadPro-BoldCondIt.otf
Myriad\ Pro\ Bold\ Italic=MyriadPro-BoldIt.otf
Myriad\ Pro\ Condensed=MyriadPro-Cond.otf
Myriad\ Pro\ Condensed\ Italic=MyriadPro-CondIt.otf
Myriad\ Pro\ Italic=MyriadPro-It.otf
Myriad\ Pro\ Light=MyriadPro-Light.otf
Myriad\ Pro\ Light\ Italic=MyriadPro-LightIt.otf
Myriad\ Pro\ Semibold=MyriadPro-Semibold.otf
Myriad\ Web\ Bold=MYRIADB.TTF
font.dir.location=..\\fonts\\

Note: I had about 25 different fonts in my dir, but only 20 were listed in the properties file (some .otf and .dfont fonts were skipped, not sure why?!)

My test.php using the various font is as below:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>

<?php
echo date("F j, Y, g:i a");
?>

 Hello World in MicrogrammaDBolExt!! 
 Hello World in MicrogrammaDMedExt!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Pro\ Semibold!! 
 Hello World in Gotham\ Bold!! 
 Hello World in Gotham\ Bold\ Italic!! 
 Hello World in Gotham\ Book!! 
 Hello World in Gotham\ Book\ Italic!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Pro!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Pro\ Black!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Pro\ Black\ Italic!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Pro\ Bold!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Pro\ Bold\ Condensed!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Pro\ Bold\ Condensed\ Italic!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Pro\ Bold\ Italic!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Pro\ Condensed!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Pro\ Condensed\ Italic!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Pro\ Italic!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Pro\ Light!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Pro\ Light\ Italic!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Pro\ Semibold!! 
 Hello World in Myriad\ Web\ Bold!! 
</body>
</html>

However in the o/p file I can only see the first two fonts being displayed(MicrogrammaDBolExt, MicrogrammaDMedExt). The rest of them (containing spaces in the font names) were ignored. Not sure if I am using the font name right, I am simply pasting the name as available in the properties file. I even tried deleting the last line "font.dir.location=..\\fonts\\" from the properties file, but no change.

Please advise.

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Subject: Re: font rendering issue

Guest

Posted: 26 Jul 2010, 15:21

In HTML you do not need to escape spaces with backslashes. So try to remove all backslashes from face attribute values.
Now:

Should be:

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Subject: Re: font rendering issue

sib

Posted: 26 Jul 2010, 23:34

Thanks for your help!

Did that already, din't help much, some text started appearing in bold, and some in Italic randomly, not the o/p we expected. I put that way with the backslashes deliberately 'coz I thought the script considered the exact font-name "as is" in the properties file - desperate measure - but din't work out!

Please if someone can help us with this; we are really looking forward to buying the paid version.

Guest wrote:

In HTML you do not need to escape spaces with backslashes. So try to remove all backslashes from face attribute values.
Now:

Should be:

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Subject: Re: font rendering issue

PD4ML

Posted: 15 Nov 2010, 05:54

1. PD4ML supports TTF and OTF fonts. OTFs from Win32 distribution are ok, but there are "third-party" OTFs for some reasons not supported by Java (in the case they are skipped in pd4fonts.properties). Usually it helps to open such OTF file in FontForge application and save as TTF. FontForge is an open source tool for UNIX/Linux platform, which is also available for Win32 as "fontforge-mingw"

2. refers to Myriad Pro Light in pd4fonts.properties. refers to Myriad Pro Light Italic, refers to Myriad Pro Light Bold. Also refers to Myriad Pro Light Bold even if there is no tags around. Probably it can explain some oddities with font styles you faced with.

Last bumped by Anonymous on 15 Nov 2010, 05:54.

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