Jeremias,
I've tried first to replace ZapfDingbats with DejaVu:
Same result as ZapfDingbats ('#' in place of cissors).
The second solution (stroke-text=true) gives expected result.
Thx,
Pascal
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Envoyé : mardi 8 avril 2008 12:18
>
> Executive summary (because the stuff below is a technical): As a
> work-around, use "Arial Unicode MS" or another TrueType font that's
> installed on your system and contains the dingbat characters.
>
> Details:
> Interesting case. The SVG text painting is all new for FOP 0.95beta.
> Zapf Dingbats used to be painted as a shape (rather than text). I've
> read somewhere that the Sun JVM uses its own Lucida font to
> paint dingbat
> characters but it appears that only a subset is available.
> What font was
> used exactly in 0.94 to paint the dingbats I don't know.
>
> Now in 0.95beta, the PDFTextPainter tries to paint all text
> as text but
> in the case of ZapfDingbats (which I didn't test it appears) this
> approach hits a limitation of the JVM perhaps. At any rate, on my
> Windows XP the Sun JVM (1.4, 1.5 and 6) does not list Zapf Dingbats in
> its font list and that's the precondition for the font to work inside
> SVG (because Batik relies on that).
>
> String[] fonts =
> GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getAvailable
> FontFamilyNames();
> for (int i = 0, c = fonts.length; i < c; i++) {
> System.out.println(fonts[i]);
> }
>
> Zapf Dingbats is usually not installed on a Windows XP so I
> installed it
> manually. But that didn't even help. The Sun JVM seems to be ignoring
> Zapf Dingbats, even if I put it under jre/lib/fonts. Maybe that's
> because it's a symbolic font.
>
> Anyway, I didn't manage to get Java to recognize ZapfDingbats so I
> looked for alternatives. Fonts like Arial Unicode MS or
> DejaVu Sans have
> the necessary glyphs.
>
> The alternative is to tell the PDF SVG support to paint the text as
> shapes which is suboptimal. Anyway, that can be done in the
> config file:
> <renderer mime="application/postscript">
> [..]
> <xml-handler namespace="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";>
> <stroke-text>true</stroke-text>
> </xml-handler>
> </renderer>
>
> HTH
>
> On 08.04.2008 10:17:45 Pascal Sancho wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I try to convert the simple attached FO file into PDF:
> > A ZapfDingbats character (✄) enbedded in a SVG snippet.
> >
> > FOP 0.94: I get cissors (expected)
> > FOP 0.95b and FOP trunk (rev 645786): I get a '#' instead
> of cissors.
> >
> > Note that the character is correctly rendered when nested
> directly in a
> > fo:block.
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Pascal
>
> Jeremias Maerki
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