Right, Andreas. I've tried to explain the two messages on our wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/Troubleshooting/CommonLogMessages
At any rate, I don't think they have anything to do with Martin's problems. On 13.07.2008 11:19:11 Andreas Delmelle wrote: > On Jul 13, 2008, at 02:53, Martin Edge wrote: > > Hi Martin > > > I notice now when generating the PCL - I additionally get these > > errors: > > > > 13/07/2008 10:46:06 org.apache.fop.fonts.truetype.TTFFile > > determineAscDesc > > WARNING: Ascender and descender together are larger than the em > > box. This > > could > > lead to a wrong baseline placement in Apache FOP. > > 13/07/2008 10:46:06 org.apache.fop.fonts.truetype.TTFFile > > determineAscDesc > > WARNING: Ascender and descender together are larger than the em > > box. This > > could > > lead to a wrong baseline placement in Apache FOP. > > 13/07/2008 10:46:09 org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener > > processEvent > > INFO: Adjusting end-indent based on overconstrained geometry rules for > > fo:table. > > (See position 30:92) > > > > What do these mean? > > The warning messages are indicators that the TrueType font(s) in > question is(are) possibly problematic when used with FOP. > > I haven't really looked closer at the cause of those messages, but I > get them as well when the auto-detect feature tries to create metrics > for some of the (non-barcode) fonts I have installed. This could > point to an issue in the TTFFileReader, which makes certain > assumptions about where/how the ascender/descender values are stored > in the file, and for some variants of TrueType fonts, these > assumptions turn out to be incorrect... (wild guess?) > > Now, the ascender/descender of the font-metrics are used by the > layoutengine when determining the baseline-placement (necessary for > correctly handling alignment-adjust and baseline-shift and the like), > hence why the warning is shown. > > > Cheers > > Andreas > Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
