Embedding font

[filippomuscolino]

Hi!
I was wondering if it could be possible to embed fonts into the document. Is it something that maybe you planned to do?
Thanks!

Filippo

[dolanmiu]

need to look into what work that would entail

seems possible, now need to replicate this in code

https://www.howtogeek.com/106681/how-to-embed-fonts-in-a-microsoft-word-document/

[filippomuscolino]

I did some research and in ECMA-376-1 there's a description on how to embed a font.
It seems that you have to include a fontsTable.xml and the embedded version of the font (I tried with LibreOffice and the format is ODTTF)

[dolanmiu]

This document is 5039 pages long, can you direct me to the specific page?

[filippomuscolino]

You're right, sorry! :) It's page 669 (chapter 17.8)

[dolanmiu]

Seems doable actually!

Thanks! I'll most likely prepare it for the v5 release

[filippomuscolino]

Great! I'll wait for it, then!
Thanks

[dolanmiu]

From what i've been reading, the font needs to be coverted to a special type of format, im not sure of anywhere which does this

do you know?

[jwerre]

I wonder if you could include a font engine such as fontkit to embed the font in the document.

[dolanmiu]

Never heard of it, but I'll take a look

[dolanmiu]

So I don't think fontkit creates ODTTF, which is the format Word documents need:

https://github.com/foliojs/fontkit/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ODTTF

[dolanmiu]

On a side note, I found this though:

https://gist.github.com/dungsaga/ab8d2379bb566c9925b27df3bc82ca8b

But it's in reverse, it converts ODTTF to TTF

Would welcome a PR which creates the reverse of that gist above

[vijayarun]

any update?

[dolanmiu]

I am stuck on the conversion of TTF to ODTTF, need to figure out how to do this.

Word only accepts the ODTTF file format for fonts

[hueyhe]

Hi @dolanmiu thanks for your great work. My developing product highly depends on docx.

Recently, I'm trying to embed a custom font into the document but couldn't find out how. Any update on this feature? Is there any documentation about the structure of ODTTF file format? From the discussion above, it seems we could solve this problem if we find out a way to convert TTF to ODTTF?