On Jun 5, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Matthias Neeracher wrote:
Yes, I guess that's best. I'd be grateful if you could find out how we can properly embed a dfont file. I know that there are utilities for extracting TTFs from dfonts.
I think I found a solution that is reasonably general: Why not pass all unknown font files to fontforge for pfa conversion?
I don't like this option because we would have to ship FontForge with the standalone LilyPond on MacOS.
It hadn't really occurred to me that this is a problem, since fontforge is used to build lilypond anyway. It is an issue for binary distributions, though. FF is big,
Hmm, yes, I had not realized that it would add 10-15M. depends on X11,
That is, I think, a configuration option.
AFAIK, a .dfont is an archive of several TTFs, and should be possible to extract the right TTF font from the .dfont directly.
Actually, we're not just dealing with dfonts here. Verdana, for instance, is a tradtional MacOS font, as far as I can tell. Also, I think that some font files may have the pfa font already embedded, so going through the ttf version may entail a loss of quality. Perhaps by borrowing code from the Fondu utility.
I actually did have that running at some point (Same way as the fontforge technique, i.e. run the binary). It's slightly messier because you have to fish out the right ttf file. Also, lilypond then needs to run another conversion step for ttf to pfa, so I thought the fontforge technique was cleaner. I can resurrect that version of the code in a few hours, however. fondu IS two orders of magnitude smaller, now that I think about it.
It would not be impossible to embed the fondu code in lilypond, but that would definitely be more work, and at this stage in the release cycle, it's probably not a great idea to add a considerably amount of code for a marginal feature that is mostly needed on one platform. this seems to work for the western font case. It *almost* seems to make xiao-haizi-guai-guai work too: the generated .ps has all fonts embedded, but somehow still fails pdf conversion.
That should not be a surprise. The chinese/japanese fonts are shipped as OTF and TTF, which are already correctly embedded by Lily. No need for fontforge there.
Well no, at least on 10.4, lilypond tries to typeset that file by pulling in the AppleMyunjo and Hei dfonts (fontconfig seems to take a certain perverse pleasure in defaulting to fonts that lilypond has difficulty embedding). Are you successful typesetting the file on 10.3 ? The fondu converted fonts seem to work even worse than the fontforge converted fonts for this.
Matthias
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