Roger. Will give it a shot.

rjs

On 06/28/2011 10:03 AM, mehdi houshmand wrote:
> No problem.
>
> If you want any advice this is what I'd do:
> First double check it's not a kerning issue in the system font. I
> think this is unlikely, but we need to double check that. I'd do that
> by copying the font, and embedding the font in the PDF with the
> #PCDATA as "Jo" (to do this you'll have to put it in the fop.xconf and
> use a non-Base14 name). If the #PCDATA text shows the same issues, the
> problem is a font one, and we can be fairly confident it's not a FOP
> issue.
>
> If however this isn't repeatable with #PCDATA then we've got an issue.
> You'll already have the font in a local directory, so check it's type,
> check do some debugging in PDFPainter.drawText(...) and find out why
> the kerning is behaving as it is. i think it's a type1 font.
>
> I'll try and do the above myself if I get some time to spare. Just
> make sure you post any findings on the bugzilla entry so we can track
> it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mehdi
>
> On 28 June 2011 16:44, Rob Sargent <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Mehdi,
>>
>> Sorry about the size of the pdf: I was hoping that removing the images
>> would make it simple enough or that the svg would suffice.
>>
>> Knowing that you think it's a bug is re-assuring.
>>
>> Not sure what "P2 normal" means in terms of time, so with a pointer to
>> what you think is the problem, I would be happy dive in.  I meant to
>> register this against version 0.95 but I have moved this (portion of
>> our) product to 1.0.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> rjs
>>
>>
>> On 06/28/2011 01:43 AM, mehdi houshmand wrote:
>>> Hi Rob,
>>>
>>> I took a quick look at this and just a note for future. If you see
>>> this kind of problem, could you reduce the FO and PDF produced to
>>> isolate the problem. There's a lot of visual noise here that makes
>>> finding the issue more difficult, however, this does look like a FOP
>>> bug, I've created a bug
>>> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51441. I'll post
>>> any findings on there.
>>>
>>> Mehdi
>>>
>>> On 27 June 2011 21:17, Rob Sargent <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> "Doth my eye deceive me?"
>>>>
>>>> I'm back to thinking this is an FOP bug.
>>>> Attached please find an example pdf, it fo and the include svg files.
>>>>
>>>> I manage to get "good output" by mis-specifying a font!!
>>>>    <svg:text
>>>> font-family="-monotype-arial-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252">
>>>>
>>>> This generates a glorious stack trace but at least the J and the o of
>>>> Joint aren't touching each other.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 06/26/2011 03:17 AM, mehdi houshmand wrote:
>>>>> Hi Rob,
>>>>>
>>>>> No I don't it's necessary if you're happy that it's not a FOP issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mehdi
>>>>> On 25 June 2011 21:55, Rob Sargent <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Medhi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've loaded acroread on the shared linux box and the pdf looks fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you still want the pdf?  Or does this become an Evince issue?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> rjs
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> mehdi houshmand wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Rob,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Could you upload the PDF in question (if it's not too big) and it'll
>>>>>>> give us a better idea of what the issue is.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mehdi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 25 June 2011 04:37, Bernard Giannetti <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Something which happened to me (unrelated to rotating text) but I 
>>>>>>>> noticed
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> difference between the PDF viewing engines of Adobe and Ubuntu's 
>>>>>>>> Document
>>>>>>>> Viewer.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There is some bug in the way the underlying library (used by Document
>>>>>>>> Viewer) does rendering - I cannot remember the specifics but the bug 
>>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>>> there still a few months ago.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So perhaps look at your PDF using Adobe PDF viewer on Linux?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:08:20 -0600
>>>>>>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>>>>> Subject: fop not handling svn rotated text on linux
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Using fop-0.95 in this case. We generate a small svg file for the
>>>>>>>>> outside edge of each page and put the section name and page number (et
>>>>>>>>> al). The text is rotated +/-90 degrees for the section name. We're
>>>>>>>>> using Helvetica. Certain character combinations are just wrongly 
>>>>>>>>> spaced
>>>>>>>>> but especially "Jo" which actually touch each other in the final pdf.
>>>>>>>>> Worse yet, this only happens on our linux boxes: OpenSuse 11.2 and 
>>>>>>>>> 11.4
>>>>>>>>> and Ubuntu. Windows boxes print just fine. How embarrassing is that!?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Any pointers appreciated,
>>>>>>>>>
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