I've been trying to see if I can modify the source to eliminate the fonts that come packaged with it. I'm not sure why it needs to include Courier, Helvetica, etc. I would think they're just a waste of space if FOP is designed to use custom fonts or installed fonts. I pass in custom fonts using only Lucida which comes in one file for normal, one for bold, one for unicode, and should be a different one for italic which I haven't needed yet.
I'm passing in the files that came with Windows XP in the fonts folder, l_10646.ttf for unicode. For FOP to display a unicode character for the 'glyph not found' error rather than one of standard ascii, it should come packaged with a unicode font set. I print the □ character to my reports and passing in the l_10646.ttf font that works fine. -----Original Message----- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:d...@jeremias-maerki.ch] Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 8:44 AM To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: [Bug 50471] Greek Extended character throwing ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException. I think so. The use of "#" is mostly historical due to lack of Unicode support initially. At least I believe so. The first fonts were WinAnsi only. IMO, it makes sense to make that transition. However, for single-byte fonts, we might still need to use "#". Not sure. On 07.01.2011 14:17:42 Simon Pepping wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 07:31:07AM -0500, bugzi...@apache.org wrote: > > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50471 > > > > --- Comment #4 from Andreas L. Delmelle <adelme...@apache.org> > > 2011-01-07 07:31:03 EST --- > > > > Very right indeed. > > So, if no one objects, I will apply the patch as proposed. FOP will > > no longer crash, but simply show a '#' for such unassigned codepoints in the output. > > Treating them as regular alphabetic characters seems to be safe > > enough for the time being. > > Would it not be better to use character FFFD, 'Replacement Character', > ?, for this? > > Simon Jeremias Maerki
