Re: [xep-support] Configuring fonts from an otf file

Hello Chris,

Indeed, since version 7.0 Adobe Acrobat supports an automatic bold
generation for a printing.

We will consider your question as a request for enhancement.

Thank you for pointing this out.

With best regards,
  Alexei Gagarinov
RenderX

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Wong" <cwong@idiominc.com>
To: "Alexei Gagarinov" <support@renderx.com>
Cc: <xep-support@renderx.com>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [xep-support] Configuring fonts from an otf file

> I'm not sure that's quite right. I just tried printing one of those
> Chinese PDFs with "fake" bold, and bold text prints on paper in bold
> (Adobe Reader 7.0). I don't see how automatic bold generation is all
> that different in principle from automatic slanting, which XEP does
> support. There is no downside to supporting automatic bold generation:
> Adobe's Reader supports it fully, and supporting it in XEP simply means
> the ability to specify the ", bold" variant, which the new font file
> format does not support.
>
> This is a big issue in practice. Adobe's reader will auto-download only
> the plain font (AdobeSongStd-Light, for simplified Chinese). Adobe does
> not provide bold/bolditalic variants of these fonts, and understandably
> so, because of their size. This is because Adobe's reader fully supports
> generating "fake" bold, italic and bold+italic variants, both for
> viewing and printing. So how should I generate bold CJK text in PDFs for
> a wide audience?
>
> Chris
>
> Alexei Gagarinov wrote:
>
> >Hello Chris,
> >
> >>I understand your explanation about there not being a bold variation,
> >>and in fact I am puzzled that Reader can display bold/italic with just
> >>this font file.
> >>
> >>
> >Yes, indeed, there is no separate font file with bold outlines for this
> >font. However, Adobe Acrobat has a specific feature - it can create an
> >automatic bold face on the fly by superpositioning the same glyphs that
are
> >a bit shifted relative to each other. This feature is applied for fonts
> >contained 'Bold' keyword preceded by comma in their name.
> >
> >Such font names were supported in the older versions of XEP 3 (prior to
XEP
> >3.7). However, the utility of this feature is very limited -- it's
supported
> >by Adobe Acrobat for on-screen rendering only. It means that in the
printed
> >document 'fake' bold face will disappear and text will be printed with
the
> >regular font. Moreover,
> >to activate this feature it was necessary to use non-trivial tricks with
> >font names and aliases in the font configuration file. Therefore in order
to
> >minimize confusion we dropped support of this feature and since version
3.7,
> >XEP relies on real font file rather than on font names.
> >
> >Best regards,
> > Alexei Gagarinov
> >RenderX
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 7:01:24 PM, you wrote:
> >
> >Attached is a sample PDF that I found on the web
> >(http://www.fastio.com). When I open the file in Adobe Reader 7, it will
> > attempt to download fonts for traditional and simplified Chinese. With
> > only the simplified Chinese font pack installed, it will indicate fonts
> >"AdobeSongStd-Light" and "AdobeSongStd-Light,BoldItalic" in use in
> > "Document Properties". The document itself shows simplified Chinese in
> > "plain" and bold+italic. "Use local fonts" is unchecked.
> > CIDFont/AdobeSongStd-Light.otf is installed.
> >
> >Since AdobeSongStd-Light.otf is the only font file downloaded by Adobe
> >for Simplified Chinese, I think it is important that XEP be able to
> >target this font for its full normal/bold/italic "variations". I
> >understand your explanation about there not being a bold variation, and
> >in fact I am puzzled that Reader can display bold/italic with just this
> >font file. But this appears to be the "standard" Adobe font choice for
> >their readers, so for deployment reasons I will need a way to output
> >these font variations with the fonts that Adobe provides.
> >
> >I have seen similar behavior for Japanese (sample PDFs also from
> >fastio.com), where a single font file seems to provide multiple font
> >variations (bold/italic).
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
> >Chris
> >
> >
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