On 2/2/07, donn / cmscms.com <donn / cmscms.com> wrote:
> I cannot figure out how to get a font loaded.  I have in c:\windows/
> fonts a font file named w128m.ttf.  It displays as "WASP 128
> M(TrueType)".  I haven't been able to code the select_font method to
> load the font.  PDF::Writer::FONT_PATH displays as c:\windows/fonts.
> Attempted coding statements have been:
>
> pdf.select_font("w128m.ttf")
> pdf.select_font("WASP 128 M")
> pdf.select_font("WASP 128 M(TrueType)")

There are issues with TrueType fonts at this point. Even if those
issues did not exist, PDF::Writer cannot yet obtain the font metrics
from the font file itself and must have an Adobe Font Metrics file
generated for it (usually associated with Type1 fonts).

-austin
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