Hi,
For FOP usage related questions, please ask to FOP-users list, witch is
more appropriate.
That said, you are facing to 2 separate topics:
1/ XML to XST-FO transformation stage: produced XML contains XML
entities rather than characters, witch gives a hard to read file for a
human being.
This question is quite out of topic for FOP lists, you should ask to
XSLT list (see [1]), but depends also on how the XSLT engine is invoked
for output.
2/ PDF rendering: font configuration
- there are many free fonts that can do the job (see [2])
- I don't remember if FOP 0.2x can handle TTC fonts like MSGothic or
MSMincho, you should check that;
- note also that font subsystem is widely improved in FOP TRUNK (see
[3]), where you can set multiple font families (very useful when mixing
different scripts like Latin + Japanese)
- another note: MS Arial Unicode only carry the regular shape, you
cannot have italic or bold variations with FOP;
- Finally, you should upgrade FOP to a recent release, FOP 0.2x is
/very/ old and is not supported anymore.
However, you can use metrics generated with a recent FOP release
with the old FOP 0.2x, there are some bugfixes on that part.
[1] http://mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/
[2] http://www.wazu.jp/index.html
[3]
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html#Changes+to+the+Font+Subsystem
Pascal
Le 17/05/2010 06:50, Srinivas Adusumalli a écrit :
> 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
>
>
