6 Replies Latest reply: Feb 21, 2010 9:45 PM by gauravk.pandey RSS

    Italic Font problem

    gauravp123 Community Member

      Hi i am working in an application where we works in sinhalese language,we dont find any solution to display sinhalese charecter in italic font, is there any solution of it.

       

      Thanks in advance

        • 1. Re: Italic Font problem
          Alan Stearns Adobe Employee

          When I set Sinhalese text in the Iskoola Pota font, I can apply bold and italic. Which font are you using?

           

          There are some text editors that will fake italics - applying a skew transform to regular glyphs. TLF/FTE does not do this - we will only display italic if there is an italic face for the font with real italic glyphs.

          • 2. Re: Italic Font problem
            gauravk.pandey Community Member

            Thanks,

                 Allen for your invaluable response I am using "amele" font but the problem is that in my application i read the text from xml and there is no italic property it look like <span fontFamily="amele">sinhelese text </span>. I need to apply the italic font so is there any italic feature in amele font .

             

             

            Thanks again hope we will keep in touch

             

             

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            With Regards

            Gaurav Kumar Pandey

            • 3. Re: Italic Font problem
              Alan Stearns Adobe Employee

              I'm not familiar with that font, and a google search didn't turn anything up. Do you know where that font originated?

               

              If you change the example you gave above to this:

               

              <span fontFamily="amele" fontStyle="italic">sinhelese text </span>

               

              Does the text show up as italic, or remain regular? If it remains regular I suspect the font does not have italic Sinhalese glyphs, but without access to the font itself I can't tell for sure.

              • 4. Re: Italic Font problem
                gauravk.pandey Community Member

                Hi,

                  Allen i am sending you the font which i am using with attachment , i also tried the <span fontStyle="italic" fontFamily="amele"></span> but the text remains the regular.

                 

                Thanks and Regards ,

                Gaurav Kumar Pandey

                • 5. Re: Italic Font problem
                  Alan Stearns Adobe Employee

                  Ah, an extra 'e' in the name. It looks like that font does not have italic glyphs. It also has the problem where it's merely mapping Roman characters to Sinhalese, so if I turn on a Sinhalese input system I can't type in TLF with that font.

                   

                  TLF requires relatively current font technology for Sinhalese - we're looking for a Sinahla OpenType table that lets us work with Sinhalese input systems. Try one of the fonts on this page: http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Sinhala.html. Iskoola Pota is the only one I've actually used, but as I said before it does have italic glyphs.

                  • 6. Re: Italic Font problem
                    gauravk.pandey Community Member

                    Thnks Alen for your valuable suggestion i am now going to use the font

                    suggersted by you.

                    The effect i will informed to you after applying

                     

                    Regards

                    Gaurav kUmar Pandey