Hi Normen, It sounds like you are trying to use a glyph that is missing in Arial, but it is difficult to comment without seeing your SVG/FO input.
Does FOP output any warnings when rendering the Postscript? I'd expect to see a message about missing glyphs Thanks, Chris On 04/10/2019 16:05, Normen Ruhrus wrote: > > Hey FOP Gurus, > > am working with the excellent FOP 2.2 and wanted to include some SVG. > I had no specific font set on that svg:text tag and FOP seemed to > autoselect Arial (seems to be default since a test with command line > FOP also logs Arial being tried to be used). > > The thing is that if i output this into Postscript, the Output looks > like this and several characters are replaced with a "Character > unknown" Char: > > ... > > /Arial-BoldMT 6 F > > 1 GC > > <0001000200030004000500060007> > > [4.662 1.998 3.66 1.662 3.336 1.662 0] xshow > > ... > > If i add the attribute "font-family" with value "Helvetica" to the > svg:text node the printer likes the ouput aka output is ok: > > <svg:text font-family="Helvetica" > style="font-size:6px;font-weight:bold;" x="-24" y="7" fill="white" > text-anchor="middle" transform="rotate(270)"><xsl:value-of > select="WARNING"/></svg:text> > > is translated into: > > ... > > /Helvetica-Bold 6 F > > 1 GC > > (\330-hjelp) > > [4.668 1.998 3.666 1.668 3.336 1.668 0] xshow > > ... > > My FOP Font Config for Postscript looks like this: > > <font kerning="yes" embed-url="trueType/arial.ttf"> > > <font-triplet name="Arial" style="normal" weight="normal"/> > > </font> > > <font kerning="yes" embed-url="trueType/ariali.ttf"> > > <font-triplet name="Arial" style="italic" weight="normal"/> > > </font> > > <font kerning="yes" embed-url="trueType/arialbi.ttf"> > > <font-triplet name="Arial" style="italic" weight="bold"/> > > </font> > > <font kerning="yes" embed-url="trueType/arialbd.ttf"> > > <font-triplet name="Arial" style="normal" weight="bold"/> > > </font> > > Is this a problem of the Arial font, or do i need to investigate > somewhere else? > > Best Regards > > Normen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Alphasoft Software Dienstleistungs- und Datenverarbeitungs GmbH > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
