Hi Vincent The telephone glyph appears as a diamond superimposed on a diagonal cross. Another glyph I use (U+2709) as an email symbol appears as a large U.
But I have discovered that these characters are being displayed correctly by Adobe Reader on Linux. The viewer with the problem is using Evince's document viewer. I see the same erroneous characters when I use that same viewer. It seems that this has ceased to be a fop issue - but thank you for the link you gave below. If we can't find out what is wrong with the Evince application I will give it a try. Cheers Trevor -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Hennebert [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 2010 10:43 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: font variance across platforms? Hi Trevor, ZapfDingbats is one of the base 14 PDF fonts and the character you are using (U+260E) belongs to its default encoding. Therefore it should be supported by any compliant PDF viewer. I’ve just checked on my own system and it works. What do you mean exactly by “not seeing the correct symbol”? If it’s a telephone symbol that looks different to the one you see in Adobe Reader, then that’s normal. Viewers are free to use any glyph they want, as long as it looks like “a black telephone”. If what they get is not a black telephone, then something is likely to be wrong with their setup. If you want the very same glyph to be displayed on every system, then you have to embed a particular font of your choice that supports the characters you need. It doesn’t have to be a Dingbats font, it can be any font that contains the appropriate glyphs (DejaVu Sans, for example). See here to configure custom fonts: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/fonts.html HTH, Vincent Trevor Nicholls wrote: > Hi > > I am using fop 0.95. In a couple of locations my current document uses this: > > <fo:character character="☎" font-family="ZapfDingbats" /> > > to insert a special character in the text. When I view the PDF in Adobe > Reader on Windows I see the expected glyph (a telephone symbol), but I have > been alerted to the fact that some users displaying this document under > X-Windows on Linux are not seeing the correct symbol. How do I tell fop to > embed the font (or at least the particular characters used in the document) > so that the generated PDF is truly platform independent? > > Cheers > Trevor > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
