Hello,
I am using FOP 1.1 to generate postscript files with embedded fonts. Later I’m
using ps2pdf to convert the postscript files to pdfs. The text includes
Lithuanian letters.
However, after coverting them to pdf, two specific letters are displayed as
squares, all the ohter Lituhuanian letters are displayed correctly. The
problematic letters are the upper- and lowercase letters ė and Ė (e with dot,
0116 and 0117 in unicode). I can copy all the letters from the pdf (including
the two problematic ones – when copying the square and pasting it somewhere, it
displays the letter correctly).
I am using the standard Arial font from Windows fonts (arial.ttf).
This is my fop-config.xml:
<configuration>
<renderers>
<renderer mime="application/postscript">
<auto-rotate-landscape>true</auto-rotate-landscape>
<fonts>
<font embed-url="./arial.ttf" encoding-mode="single-byte">
<font-triplet name="Arial" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>
</fonts>
</renderer>
</renderers>
</configuration>
When leaving out the encoding-mode=“single-byte“, the letters display
correctly, but when copying from the pdf, I get gibberish.
When generating straight to pdf with FOP, everything is displayed correctly and
copying is also possible.
I have tried other ps->pdf converters and they give the same result.
Using a metric file did not help.
The problem can be reproduced with the xml and xslt in the fop quick start
guide (https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/quickstartguide.html) with these
modifications:
Set the name in name.xml to ABC14pąęčėųūĘĖŲČĄ.
Add the attribute font-familiy=“Arial“ to the fo:block in name2fo.xsl.
Use the above fop-config file and include the standard Arial font in FOP’s
directory.
Run ’fop -xml name.xml -xsl name2fo.xsl -ps name.ps -c fop-config.xml’
Can anyone suggest, what could be the issue or how should I go about debugging
this?
Thank You.
Lembit
