If those documents use Unicode charsets, a possible solution is to embed ttf
font contains needed charsets into PDF. I am using DFSG-free version
of "kochi" font family for asian languages.
To embed fonts first prepare font map xml using provided with fop tool:
fop-ttfreader kochi-gothic.ttf kochi-gothic.xml
Create config file with font map settings. Here my config file cnf.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<fonts>
<font metrics-file="/pathto/kochi-gothic.xml"
embed-file="/usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi/kochi-gothic.ttf" kerning="yes">
<font-triplet name="Kochi Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
<font-triplet name="Kochi Gothic" style="italic" weight="normal"/>
<font-triplet name="Kochi Gothic" style="normal" weight="bold"/>
<font-triplet name="Kochi Gothic" style="italic" weight="bold"/>
</font>
</fonts>
<!-- To use embeded fonts in SVG too: -->
<entry>
<key>strokeSVGText</key>
<value>false</value>
</entry>
</configuration>
Then when you want to "fop":
fop -c cnf.xml -fo data.fo -pdf document.pdf
On Saturday 06 May 2006 18:48 pm, Matthew East wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to build (using fop 0.20-5) some pdfs of some guides which are
> in Asian languages (Taiwanese, Chinese, Korean etc) and the resulting pdfs
> don't show any of the characters, just hash symbols. Does anyone know how I
> can improve this situation?
>
> I've put an example .fo file and the resulting .pdf file at this address:
>
> http://mdke.org/ubuntu/fop/
>
> Hope you can help!
>
> Thanks, Matt
>
>
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