You should use URL for configured TTF (ARIALUNI.TTF) file, like
'file:///C:/windows/fonts/ARIALUNI.TTF'...
I am able to generate PDF document with japanese fonts using FOP Trunk
latest version, it should also work with FOP 0.95 with the metrics-url
attribute.
Venkat.
Srinivas Adusumalli wrote:
Hi,
I am facing the routine problem with generating multilingual pdf using
Apache FOP
*Requirement: *We should be able to generate PDF in Asian/multiple
languages(Japanese, Chinese etcc.,) using Apache FOP
*Current Set up: *Current system is using Apache FOP to generate PDF
in english at the runtime. The .fo file (containing information about
the blocks and data to be written to PDF) and userconfig
file(containing information about the fonts) content is constructed at
the run time based on the data available in the Database.
*Solution Tried so far: *After analyzing i found that we need to
embedd fonts related to japanese or chinese etcc specifically in to
the PDF, following are the steps I followed to do the same.
1) Downloaded latest fop.jar (fop-0.95-bin.zip
<javascript:void('http://mirrors.ecvps.com/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/fop-0.95-bin.zip');>
) from http://mirrors.ecvps.com/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/
<javascript:void('http://mirrors.ecvps.com/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/');>
2) Created font metric files for ARIALUNI and MS Gothic fonts as
specified at http://www.zvon.org/HowTo/Output/cid-fonts.pdf
<javascript:void('http://www.zvon.org/HowTo/Output/cid-fonts.pdf');>
3) Ensured that the userconfig.xml has the following font entries
<font metrics-file="ARIALUNI.xml" kerning="yes"
embed-file="ARIALUNI.TTF">
<font-triplet name="Arial Unicode MS" style="normal"
weight="normal" />
</font>
<font metrics-file="msgothic.xml" kerning="yes"
embed-file="msgothic.ttc">
<font-triplet name="MS-Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>
4) Ensured that .fo file generated uses the above specified font for
the certain blocks which contains the Japanese text.
Even after performing the above steps, I see the content being
displayed as
つのコメントをテスト
or as ?????????????????????
instead of displaying it in Japanese text.
*NOTE: *
1)* *The japanese text that needs to be displayed is picked from the
database, and in the database we see the information as
つのコメントをテスト
when we try to view it using TOAD. I am fetching the same information
and displaying it in one of the text field in the page where in it is
displaying appropriately as Japanese text (This is because i am
setting the charset/pageEncoding to UTF-8).
2) There was no *"MS Gothic.ttf"* in C:\WINDOWS\fonts dir so i have
used *"MS Gothic.ttc" *to generate the font metric file for the same
initially and later i downloaded MSGothic.ttf from internet and tries
the same , and in the userconfig.xml I tried to specify both (one at a
time) for *embed-file* property
*i tried the following entry once *
**
<font metrics-file="MSGothic.xml" kerning="yes"
embed-file="MSGothic.*ttf*">
<font-triplet name="MS Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>
*and then*
**
<font metrics-file="MSGothic.xml" kerning="yes"
embed-file="MSGothic.*ttc*">
<font-triplet name="MS Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>
**
**
*Questions I have:*
1) The .fo file created at runtime has the Japanese content as
つのコメントをテスト
isntead of Japanese characters. Is this fine? Enclosed is the sample
*"Template_user10_.fo" *file that is getting generated.
2) Enclosed are userconfig.xml and font metric files for MS Gothic and
ARIALUNI. Check if these are fine.
3) Guide/Suggest what all we have to in order to properly write Asian
languages/Japanese/Chinese to PDF's using Apache FOP. The version of
FOP used in our application is 0.20.5, but i have used 0.95 version to
generate the metrics file, will it create a problem? Can you please
guide the appropriate versions to be used during the whole process.
Regards,
Srinivas
