The speedata Publisher can use fonts in the followig formats:
.afm
, .pfb
).otf
).ttf
)In the layout rules the name of the font file must be connected to an internal name. This internal name is then used in the command DefineFontfamily which groups up to four fonts in a family (regular, bold, italic and bolditalic). The first step is accomplished with LoadFontfile:
<LoadFontfile name="Helvetica" filename="helvetica-regular.otf" />
<LoadFontfile name="Helvetica Bold" filename="helvetica-bold.otf" />
<LoadFontfile name="Helvetica Italic" filename="helvetica-italic.otf" />
<LoadFontfile name="Helvetica BoldItalic" filename="helvetica-bolditalic.otf" />
After executing these commands, the font files are known as Helvetica
,
Helvetica Bold
etc. In the second step they are used by the command
DefineFontfamily:
<DefineFontfamily name="heading" fontsize="12" leading="14">
<Regular fontface="Helvetica"/>
<Bold fontface="Helvetica Bold"/>
<Italic fontface="Helvetica Italic"/>
<BoldItalic fontface="Helvetica BoldItalic"/>
</DefineFontfamily>
The font family heading
is composed by the four given font files. Now
you can use the font family in commands such as
Textblock or
Table.
The LoadFontfile
instructions can be auto generated on the command
line. You need to run the sp
program with the command list-fonts
,
such as
sp --xml [--extra-dir=...] list-fonts
The output contains all font files that are found in the current
directory (and its subdirectories). Additional directories can be
supplied by the shown command line option --extra-dir=<dirname>
. The
value for the name
attribute in the LoadFontfile
command defaults to
the postscript name of the font but can be changed to any other value.