Hi Bernard Thanks for that explanation; that makes a lot of sense now.
I think I'm still having a little trouble working out which are the line(s) where you're telling FOP which fonts are available, though. Specifically what I have is a byte-array containing a font's data, and I need to make FOP use that font when it renders an FO (there's no XSL translation - that has already been done). I've been through the docs a number of times now, but I can't see where I can add a font manually to FOP's runtime config, or tell it to refresh it's font cache after providing a directory of fonts, or anything like that. :( Bernmeister wrote: > > > Hi Phill, > The PropertiesManager is a class of mine which basically extends > java.util.Properties and essentially reads/writes a hash table of > key/value pairs. I store in the properties a list of the font names and > their respective font files (as discovered via FOP). For me on Ubuntu > 12.04 I get: > FontList=Andale Mono,Arial,Arial Black,Bitstream Charter,Century > Schoolbook L,Comic Sans > MS,Courier,...FontFiles=file\:/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice/opens___.ttf,file\:/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-khmeros-core/KhmerOS.ttf,... > I cannot remember precisely why I had to implement this "cache" but I > think it had to do with supporting i18n. Originally I simply used the > hard coded default fonts which FOP "provided" but I found on some > non-English machines I'd get the 'square' symbol and so wanted to provide > a way for a user to specify a font to use for the render. To do this I > got FOP to tell me what fonts were available and present that to the user. > I just cache that information so I don't have to ask FOP each time (which > can take a few minutes). > When I do the render I pass the font name as one of the transformer > parameters: > > xslParams.put( "font-family", (String)m_fontName.getSelectedItem() ); > where m_fontName is the selected font name in the JComboBox shown to the > user. > > Cheers, > Bernard. > >> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 06:41:58 -0700 >> From: phillip.old...@gmail.com >> To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org >> Subject: RE: Still having trouble loading fonts at runtime - suggestions? >> >> >> Hi Bernard >> >> Thanks for that code - that's really helpful. >> >> However, from what I can tell (java isn't one of my main languages, I'm a >> Python dev) it seems as though it doesn't actually tell FOP to reload any >> fonts, but rather gathers a list of fonts and then asks >> `PropertiesManager` >> to set the fonts. I can't see a reference to `PropertiesManager` in the >> FOP >> docs; is that a class in your app, or am I missing something? >> >> Cheers, >> Phill > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Still-having-trouble-loading-fonts-at-runtime---suggestions--tp34000790p34006018.html Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
