Dear Andreas,
Thanks a lot. I feel somehow less stupid.
I wrote a couple of ugly perl scripts to avoid the problem: one to
encode character entities before producing the .fo file and the other to
decode them surrounded with <fo:inline
font-family="Symbol">entity</fo:inline> after. In that way, I can go on
producing html and pdf file from the same docbook source. This works fine.
Nevertheless, I hope this problem will be fixed in future versions.
Best regards -- Antoine Rauzy
Andreas L Delmelle a écrit :
On Aug 12, 2007, at 11:56, Antoine Rauzy wrote:
Hi
I've installed fop on my machine, a PC under windows XP. I just
downloaded the binary (I made no reconfiguration).
I'm trying to compile a .fo file obtained from a docbook source
file, via xsltproc. My .fo file contains greek letters. In the
resulting pdf file, I get # characters instead of greek letters.
The greek letters are included into a bloc with a font-family
attribute like 'font-family="serif,Symbol,ZapfDingbats"'. If I
switch serif and Symbol manually, then the pdf file does contain the
greek letters but #'s are now for ascii characters.
In a word, it seems that fop considers only the first font family
of the list.
Is it a problem due to my installation? What can I do to prevent it?
It is a limitation in FOP, I'm afraid. We do not yet have a proper
implementation of the fallback mechanism for font-family. In the
above, if the first specified font-family, serif, does not contain a
glyph for a given character, then you'll always get the annoying '#'.
The Symbol and ZapfDingbats families are never considered,
unfortunately...
The only way to prevent it, would be to tweak the Docbook stylesheets
to use the proper font-families in the right situations.
HTH!
Cheers
Andreas
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