Hi Zac If you have further questions regarding how to reference fonts in the fop.xconf you may find the answers in the wiki (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/fonts.html), if that doesn't help, feel free to ask.
mehdi On 23 March 2011 15:46, Rob Sargent <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you need to add a font definition to you fop.xconf. > > Here's one I have in my config. > > <renderers> > <renderer mime="application/pdf"> > <fonts> > <font metrics-url="GillSansMTPro-Medium.xml" kerning="yes" > embed-url="GillSansMTPro-Medium.ttf"> > <font-triplet name="GillSansMTPro" style="normal" weight="normal"/> > </font> > ... > > > On 03/23/2011 09:24 AM, Zac Nichol wrote: >> >> OK so since FOP cannot do style attribute of outline, I instead found >> a font whose normal appearance looks like what you would call an >> outline style. The font's name is "Swis721 BdOul BT" (I know this >> because i open the file in Font Viewer on Ubuntu and that's waht it >> says is the "Name") and it's in a file called "swissbo.ttf" and it's >> saved at location /usr/share/fonts/swissbo.ttf. BUT now I just can't >> seem to make it work. Here's what I'm doing in detail... >> >> I've got my configuration file which contains the code like this: >> ... >> <fonts> >> <directory>/usr/share/fonts</directory> >> </fonts> >> ... >> and i'm calling FOP like this: fop -c fop.xconf template.fo output.pdf >> >> inside template.fo I refer to the font like this: >> ... >> <fo:block font-size="14pt" font="Swis721 BdOul BT" >> text-align="center">some text</fo:block> >> ... >> >> is this wrong? i've also tried doing "font-family=" instead of just >> "font=" and it also doesn't work. It just prints it in Times New >> Roman i think. >> >> Any help is appreciated. THank you. >> -Zac >> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Rob Sargent<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I suspect you either need to acquire a "outline" font or if you system >>> has >>> one then you may need to set the option to look locally fonts using >>> "<auto-detect/>" in your fop_config.xml file. Either way you have to >>> name >>> the font with 'font-family="your-outline-font"' in your fo. It is not a >>> font-style far as I know. >>> >>> On 03/22/2011 12:30 PM, Zac Nichol wrote: >>>> >>>> can fop do "outline" style font? how? if not is there some kind of >>>> workaround? >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> 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] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
