Interesting! Similar issues may exist in Apache PDFBox as well. Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 1, 2013, at 8:39 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > > On 2/1/13 6:54 PM, "Dave Fisher" <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Any thoughts about upgrading to the latest Batik and breaking a project >> specific fork? > Funny you should ask today. I spent some time today looking at our > dependency on the Adobe font libraries. Until I did that, my answer would > have been that Falcon doesn't use Batik so eventually we'd be done with > Batik as a dependency. > > However, Falcon doesn't yet have embedded font support, and we need to code > up TTF-to-CFF Font handling somehow. In my snooping around it appears that > Batik doesn't handle CFF either but there are a few requests for it. It > looks like Batik does read TTF files so maybe the right thing to do is add > CFF support to Batik and use that part of Batik. > > Flex uses Batik for CSS as well, and our fork adds non-standard extensions > to CSS. I think we won't need that part of CSS so we won't have to worry > about that part of Batik. > > The TTF-to-CFF conversion looks painful and not-very-fun from my > perspective. Unless someone jumps in to do it, I guess I'll start trudging > through it maybe one day a week or something like that. > > I guess whoever does that should plug into the Batik lists to see if anyone > in that community has CFF under way. > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >
