Re: XSLT transformation to PDF, Chinese characters lost

[Mike J Boyersmith]

>On 23.09.2004 20:24:22 Mike J Boyersmith wrote:
>> Problem:  generated PDF file shows '#' characters instead of Chinese
>> characters.
>
>As you probably found out yourself, this here applies:
>http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#pdf-characters

yup saw that, I found the FOP examples to... but not One of them shows how to do a
end to end walk through of dealing with language/i18n type issues :(. That would be a
great addition to the examples collection.

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>> This all works great BUT!!!!!! The problem is that on Chinese if I have
>> text that has Chinese characters they are replaced with '#' characters,
>> and I can figure no way around thisÃâÂ.
>>
>> So. Digging around I see that I need to embed fonts, but
>> How do I do this programmatically?

>>Create the font metrics XML for your TrueType fonts as described here:
>>http://xml.apache.org/fop/fonts.html

>>Then use the userconfig.xml as described here:
>>http://xml.apache.org/fop/embedding.html#config-external

>>It's probably best to try on the command-line first and then port the
>>whole thing into Java

>>How do I do this so it works on Windows and Linux?

>>Don't worry about that. It works the same way on both platforms. That's
>>because FOP uses its own font subsystem for PDF and PS output.

Would be nice if I could just specify font-family, and it would all work, but
guess I'm dreaming. will try walking through the problem from the command line as you suggested.

Thanks for the quick reply :D