marek.jakubowicz at sote.pl wrote: > > I have got problem with generation PDF documents with polish charset. > I attached the file which I can't convert to PDF. After conversion there > are charater '#' instead of correct polish characters. > > I attached soteshop.xml and soteshop.pdf with wrong chars. > I've installed polish translation ext. and dictionary and I have no idea > what I shoul do to generate good PDF in Polish language. >
I'm sorry but I cannot help you much because the problem lies in the PDF technology itself. I mean: this is not an XMLmind XML Editor problem, a DocBook XSL style sheet problem, an Apache FOP or a RenderX XEP problem. The problem is that: "PDF prescribes a set of 14 standard fonts that can be used without prior definition. These include four faces each of three ***Latin*** text typefaces (Courier, Helvetica, and Times), as well as two symbolic fonts (Symbol and ITC Zapf Dingbats). These fonts, or suitable substitute fonts with the same metrics, are guaranteed to be available in all PDF viewer applications." I didn't realize that. I'm stunned to learn that Acrobat Reader does not support the whole Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (like Java does). This implies that: [1] You must configure FOP or XEP to use Central Europe Fonts (not Courier, Helvetica, and Times). This step is *pretty* *hard*. [2] You must configure the DocBook XSL style sheets to reference these fonts. This step should be easy: use "Options|Customize Configure|Change Document Conversion Parameters" (see http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/optionsMenu.html#customizeConfigurationMenu). All this is very well explained here: "Adding a font" http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/AddFont.html --- PS: Attached sotepod.xml has *many* *severe* structural errors. You are strongly urged to fix them before doing any serious work with XMLmind XML Editor. --- PS: I'm forwarding this email to xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com in case other users have a ready-to-use FOP's userconfig.xml.
