Hi list, I'm having some problems with fonts in SVG and PDF output. The weird thing is, it works correctly on one machine, but fails on all my other machines.
What am I trying to accomplish? I have an svg file, that I want to convert to PDF. We used batik before, but ended up with rasterized text (ie. you could not copy+paste the text out of the pdf). A quick test run with FOP showed that it did make the text selectable, instead of rendering the text as graphics. The fo file i'm using is below for reference. As you can see, i'm first writing out 'test (10) abductii' in font-family AbductionII (some weird font i used because it looks totally different from any standard font and even i as a non designer can pick that out from the standard fonts :). Then i'm embedding the svg. Inside the svg we find some text nodes that also use the AbducionII font-family. Now, I've configured the ttf file that contains AbductII in X, as well as in a custom config for FOP. I then run the fo file through FOP and check the result. In all cases, the test text 'test (10) abductii' is rendered correctly. However, the text in the svg is only rendered correctly on my desktop. I've tried on 4 different systems, in all cases using the exact same fop-0.95 binary download. desktop: IcedTea Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-Mandriva-19.202.56.2mdv2008.0) IcedTea 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0-b05, mixed mode) Mandriva linux laptop: java version "1.6.0_0" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_0-b11) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0_0-b11, mixed mode) debian server: java version "1.4.2-p7" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2-p7-root_25_dec_2005_15_17) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-p7-root_25_dec_2005_15_17, mixed mode) FreeBSD 7.x server: java version "1.6.0_07" Diablo Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_07-b02) Diablo Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 10.0-b23, mixed mode) FreeBSD 7.x So only on the desktop do i get the result i'm after, in all other cases, only the test text put directly in the fo file renders ok, the svg text renders with a standard font (although spaced as if it was rendered in the wider AbductionII font). Now, i'm aware that to render svg, fop uses batik as well. And that there is some step in between batik and fop's pdf output, that maps fonts used in batik output to something configured in FOP. Perhaps this mapping is failing for some reason on all machines except the desktop machine? Would the java version (and thus presumably the awt implementation) be a relevant thing? What can I do to further debug this problem?? Btw, using batik-1.7's rasterizer, i can render the svg to pdf with the right font, however then i'm back to my original problem that the text is not selectable. Any hints would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks, Koen <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";> <fo:layout-master-set> <fo:simple-page-master master-name="first" margin-right="1.5cm" margin-left="1.5cm" margin-bottom="2cm" margin-top="1cm" page-height="21cm" page-width="29.7cm"> <fo:region-body margin-top="1cm"/> <fo:region-before extent="1cm"/> <fo:region-after extent="1.5cm"/> </fo:simple-page-master> </fo:layout-master-set> <fo:page-sequence master-reference="first"> <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> <fo:block font-family="AbductionII">test (10) abductii</fo:block> <fo:block> <fo:external-graphic src="file:test.svg" content-width="scale-to-fit" content-height="scale-to-fit" width="26.7cm" scaling="un iform"/> </fo:block> </fo:flow> </fo:page-sequence> </fo:root> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
