On 17.09.2004 21:08:30 Clay Leeds wrote:
> I need to add a barcode to my fo:region-after. If this were a static
> barcode (i.e., one barcode per document), I would be just use
> Barcode4J[1]. But since part of the barcode indicates the current page
> number (d'oh!), I don't believe I can use Barcode4J for this purpose
> (Jeremias, please correct me if I'm wrong :-D).
No, you can't. The FOP extension doesn't have access to the page number
ATM.
> I believe this means I
> need to apply a barcode *font* to a <fo:page-number/> element. Unless
> there's a way to dynamically feed <fo:page-number/> to Barcode4J (which
> I don't think is possible), I think I'll have to use a font like this:
>
> <fo:block
> font-family="barcode_font">F62P<fo:page-number/>-0704</fo:block>
>
> (I have to admit, that I haven't tried with Barcode4J yet, but it's
> downloading now!)
>
> On the FONT front, was anyone successfully used barcode fonts with FOP?
> Where can I obtain barcode fonts? I found a link[2] and I'll try some
> of the files there.
I've tried both 3 of 9 fonts from [2] and [3] and the Code128 font from
[2]. All work fine, although the TTF font causes two warnings because of
missing TTF tables.
> UPDATE: I've been trying, but I'm getting errors ('[ERROR] unknown font
> Code128JK_A,normal,normal so defaulted font to any' or '[ERROR] unknown
> font FREE3OF9,normal,normal so defaulted font to any', depending on the
> FONT I'm trying to use). I downloaded a barcode font from here[3], and
> followed the instructions on the FOP Font Page[4].
>
> Here's the relevant portion of my conf/userconfig.xml file:
>
> <entry>
> <key>fontBaseDir</key>
> <value>/Users/Shared/_WebDLs/barcode_fonts</value>
> </entry>
>
> <fonts>
> <!-- snipped commented section(s) -->
> <font metrics-file="A8______.XML"
> embed-file="barfonts/pfb/A8______.pfm" kerning="yes">
embed-file takes the PFB, not the PFM!!! The PFM is only for generating
the font metrics XML. The PFB contains the actual font.
It doesn't make a big difference but set kerning to "no".
> <font-triplet name="Code128JK_A" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
> <font metrics-file="FREE3OF9.XML" embed-file="free3of9/FREE3OF9.TTF"
> kerning="yes">
> <font-triplet name="FREE3OF9" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
> </fonts>
>
> This is the relevant XSL-FO for using the PFM:
>
> <fo:block
> font-family="Code128JK_A">F62P<fo:page-number/>-0704</fo:block>
Works for me.
>
> Since I was having trouble using the PostScript font, I tried using
> TTF. This is the relevant XSL-FO for using the TTF:
>
> <fo:block font-family="FREE3OF9">F62P<fo:page-number/>-0704</fo:block>
>
> Please let me know if I need to provide any other info.
Dumb question: Have you supplied the userconfig.xml on the command-line?
That's my only explanation for your problem. If I omit the
userconfig.xml I get your error messages. Besides that I've done nothing
special while generating the XML metrics. I've used practically the same
configuration (including fontBaseDir). I've even copied snippets from
your e-mail to reproduce the problems.
Jeremias Maerki
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