ok I searched a bit in the mailing list, but couldn't find the right thing. 
Isn't it possible to copy this specail character from the "ZapfDingbats" font 
directly into the font-metric I'm using (I'm using a custom one already)? If 
so, how can I do this? Maybe there exists a documentation about the whole 
concept behind the font?


[email protected] schrieb am 17.02.06 15:23:59:
> 
> XSL-FO allows you to specify a list of font names in the font-family
> property but this is not supported by FOP, yet (FOP uses the first font
> in the list it supports regardless of the characters to be rendered).
> You'll have to find a TrueType font that contains all the characters. In
> that case you're back to creating a XML font metrics file using the
> TTFReader. You may also want to look through the mailing list archives.
> I think I remember certain suggestions for alternative work-arounds.
> 
> On 17.02.2006 15:13:21 Sascha Punzmann wrote:
> > Yes a lot easier than I thought! But with this I encountered another 
> > problem! 
> > 
> > my XML looks like this: <para>&#9744; Test text</para>
> > 
> > if I apply the font-family="ZapfDingbats" then all the para text is
> > displayed in this font-family. It it possible to set up an optional
> > font-display it the character isn't available in the primary
> > font-family?
> > 
> > 
> > [email protected] schrieb am 17.02.06 15:01:15:
> > > 
> > > ZapfDingbats is one of the base 14 fonts which are available in FOP
> > > without doing anything special (at least when you render to PDF and PS).
> > > So, provided that the Unicode value is correct (I haven't checked), you
> > > can simply specify font-family="ZapfDingbats" and your checkbox should
> > > be shown. So, you see it's a lot simpler than you thought. :-)
> > > 
> > > On 17.02.2006 14:44:24 Sascha Punzmann wrote:
> > > > I know it is an topic that has been discussed several times here, but I
> > > > really canot find the solution for me! If I want to add a unicode
> > > > character for a checkbox "&#9744; --> &#9744;" The PDF only contains a
> > > > "#". So far I understand that I need to convert this symbol somehow into
> > > > an XML Font Metric to use it in the PDF Creation. But I don't know how.
> > > > I tried to convert "ZapfDingbats" to such a XML file, but it failed due
> > > > to a missing Unicode cmap table. So my question is, how do I get this
> > > > symbol into my PDF?
> 
> 
> 
> Jeremias Maerki
> 
> 
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