On 20/04/2012 18:54, Glenn Adams wrote:
Hi Glenn,
it is best you create a bug at [1] to track this; you can upload
attachments on the new bug; file it under the "Fop" product;
I'm not happy to encourage users on this list to open bugs before
confirming there is a defect.
Everything I've read on this thread so far suggests this is a
configuration issue. Metrics files are deprecated in FOP v1.0+
How to reference instead of embed is to add the embed-url attribute on
the fonts elements and use the <referenced-fonts> element as described
in [1]
Thanks,
Chris
[1] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/fonts.html#embedding
[1] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Jean-Philippe Courson
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to produce chinese PDFs not embedding fonts. I am
using the SimSun font.
When embedding the font, everything is fine. However, when trying
to reference the font, FOP produced an invalid PDF, despite the
Simsun font being installed on the machines were the PDF is
produced and opened.
I tried both auto-configuring the fonts and the old style, metric
based manual font configuration:
1) Auto-configured fonts:
<fonts>
<referenced-fonts>
<match font-family=".*"/>
</referenced-fonts>
</fonts>
<renderers>
<renderer mime="application/pdf">
...
<auto-detect/>
The produced PDF shows # characters for every chinese symbol.
2) Manually configured fonts:
<renderers>
<renderer mime="application/pdf">
...
<fonts>
<font
metrics-url="file:///Users/jumal/Downloads/fop-1.0/SimSun.xml"
kerning="yes">
<font-triplet name="SimSun" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
<font-triplet name="SimSun" style="normal" weight="bold"/>
<font-triplet name="SimSun" style="italic" weight="normal"/>
<font-triplet name="SimSun" style="italic" weight="bold"/>
</font>
a) Metric file generated with the default options:
java -cp ... org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader
SimSun.ttf SimSun.xml
The produced PDF can not be opened by Acrobat Reader which
gives the following error message: "Cannot find or create the font
'SimSun'. Some characters may not display or print correctly".
b) Metric file generated with the -enc ansi options:
java -cp ... org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader -enc ansi
SimSun.ttf SimSun.xml
The produced PDF shows # characters for every chinese symbol.
Having a look at
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/fonts.html#truetype-metrics,
and in particular:
TTFReader [options]:
...
• -enc ansi Creates a WinAnsi-encoded font metrics file.
Without this option, a CID-keyed font metrics file is created. The
table below summarises the differences between these two encoding
options as currently used within FOP. Please note that this
information only applies to TrueType fonts and TrueType collections:
Issue WinAnsi
CID-keyed
Usable Character Set Limited to WinAnsi character set, which
is roughly equivalent to iso-8889-1. Limited only by the
characters in the font itself.
Embedding the Font Optional.
Mandatory. Not embedding the font
produces invalid PDF documents.
it looks like you need to use the -enc ansi to be able to
reference a font. Does this mean that have to use WinAnsi
(windows-1252) encoding for the input XML files?
If it is the case, that would mean to produce for example chinese
PDFs, you would have to embed the font, as windows-1252 cannot be
used to encode chinese symbols.
Am I missing something or the only way to produce chinese PDF is
to embed the font with the font licensing costs it implies?
Cheers,
JP
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