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. 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