Thanks for your help Rainer.
I'm fairly dumb when it comes to fonts. My problem is that I don't
control the source of the character and I would expect that in most
cases the characters that are a problem are in ANSI set from 127-255.
From what you're saying I'll have to pre-parse the string and replace it
with the matching character in Adobe. Is that right? Is there another
way?
Cheers
Tim
-Original Message-
From: Rainer Garus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 4 February 2002 4:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Displaying characters in PDF
If the standard fonts of FOP (Helvetica, Times, Courier, Symbol and
ZapfDingbats) contains the character, then you do not use additional
fonts.
FOP use unicode. So you must insert the unicode value (code point) of
the character in your fo file. If you mean with slanted apostrophe the
character with the adobe font name quoteright the code point is 2019.
This is a hexadezimal value. Using the iso-8859-1 encoding you have to
insert the numeric character reference in your fo file, for example:
fo:block font-family=Helvetica#x2018;text#x2019;/fo:block
To find the code point of a character of the Helvetica font, you can
search the adobe font name of the character in chapter C.1 of the pdf
reference manual
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/DOCS/pdfspec.pdf and
then use the adobe glyph list
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/type/glyphlist.txt
Rainer Garus
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