Thanks for these suggestions,. I think I've narrowed down the problem to
font-embedding.
If I use Helvetica in my xsl:fo, then I can export to rtf without problems,
but using the Arial metrics files I created and embedding these results in
garbled rtf output. Viewing the Document properties in Acrobat lists the
fonts as multibyte e.g
Original Font: 1E3f38Arial
Type: TrueType(CID)
Encoding: Identity-H
Actual Font: Embedded
Type: TrueType
On the other hand, a pdf using Acrobat Distiller from Word
Original Font: Arial
Type: TrueType
Encoding: Windows
Actual Font: ArialMT
Type: Type 1
Has anyone else successfully converted a FOP pdf to rtf containing embedded
fonts? Could the problem be in the metrics creation? Or is it possible to
use the fonts without embedding them?
Thanks
Ralph Bruno
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 28 July 2001 01:06
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: pdf security
>
> Adobe technical support does exactly what all other
> big-company support
> folks do as a first line of defense - blame someone else. In
> fact, FOP
> contains precisely zero source code to put an Encrypt key in the PDF
> document trailer dictionary, and hence it is not possible for
> documents
> produced by FOP, out of the box, to have security.
>
> If you produce a document with FOP, and look at the document
> security, not
> only will it tell you that you can print and copy text to
> your heart's
> content, but also that there is no security method.
>
> When you say Acrobat 5, I'm guessing you mean Acrobat
> Exchange. Well, that
> is the only part of this whole equation that can set
> security, and so Adobe
> support lied to you. OK, let's be charitable - they didn't
> know any better.
> Given my experience with customer/technical support for big
> companies that
> is a very plausible explanation.
>
> I'm a bit irritable because I'm just coming off a 12-hour day
> wrestling with
> idiosyncracies of a J2EE server which shall go unnamed, and
> has involved a
> certain support system for 6 weeks to no avail, so I'm
> venting a bit at
> Adobe's expense. They actually deserve the flak to some
> degree, anyway.
> Seriously, though, did you inspect the FOP-produced doc using
> _Reader_? As
> soon as FOP produced it?
>
> Regards,
> Arved Sandstrom
>
> Fairly Senior Software Type
> e-plicity (http://www.e-plicity.com)
> Wireless * B2B * J2EE * XML --- Halifax, Nova Scotia
>
>
>
> At 04:42 PM 7/27/01 +0100, Ralph Bruno wrote:
> >I'm using FOP 0.19 and Acrobat 5, and whenever I try to export my
> >FOP-generated pdf to rtf, all I get are seemingly blank
> pages, but it is in
> >fact white text on a white background (In case you're
> wondering, my original
> >pdf is black, red and grey text on white).
> >
> >I contacted Adobe technical support and they've informed me
> that it's a
> >result of the security settings in my pdf - it's been set
> for non-copying of
> >text. Obviously the only place it could have been set is in
> the FOP code.
> >How do I change it to allow copying?
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