Re: [docbook-apps] Publishing Character Entities (%isopub;) in PDF from DocBook XML

["Don Adams" <dga@sgi.com>]

I have not been able to solve this problem.  Just
in case someone searches for this information, or you
can see a mistake I've made, here is what I've tried so far.

I located the ArialUnicodeMS true-type font file
on a Windows system.  This file was
C:\WINNT\Fonts\ARIALUNI.TTF on that system.

I copied this TTF file to a different directory
on a Linux system.

I entered the Java command based on the "TrueType Font Metrics"
information on this web page:

http://xml.apache.org/fop/fonts.html

(Note: in this E-mail, I've substituted "$FULLPATH" for the
actual path I used in order to help simplify the information.)

$FULLPATH/j2re1.4.2_03/bin/java -Xms512m -Xmx512m -classpath
"$FULLPATH/fop/fop-0.20.5/lib/xml-apis.jar:
$FULLPATHfop/fop-0.20.5/lib/xercesImpl2.2.1.jar:
$FULLPATH/fop/fop-0.20.5/lib/xalan-2.4.1.jar:
$FULLPATH/fop/fop-0.20.5/lib/batik.jar:
$FULLPATH/fop/fop-0.20.5/lib/avalon-framework-cvs20020806.jar:
$FULLPATH/fop/fop-0.20.5/build/fop.jar:
$FULLPATH/fop/fop-0.20.5/lib/avalonframework.jar:
$FULLPATH/fop/fop-0.20.5/lib/xml-apis.jar:"
org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader
$FULLPATH/ARIALUNI.TTF arialuni.xml

Here is the output TTFReader created during the process:
--------------------------------------------------

Reading $FULLPATH/ARIALUNI.TTF...

Number of glyphs in font: 50377
Postscript format 3
Creating xml font file...

Creating CID encoded metrics
Writing xml font file arualuni.xml...

This font contains no embedding license restrictions

----------------------------------------------------


Then I added the following to the
$FULLPATH/fop/fop-0.20.5/conf/userconfig.xml file

 <font metrics-file="$FULLPATH/arialuni.xml" kerning="yes"
embed-file="$FULLPATH/ARIALUNI.TTF">
    <font-triplet name="Arial" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
    <font-triplet name="ArialMT" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
    <font-triplet name="Times New Roman" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
    <font-triplet name="Times" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
    <font-triplet name="Times-Roman" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
 </font>

Then I added the -c $FULLPATH/userconfig.xml option to
org.apache.fop.apps.Fop

Nothing has changed in my PDF output.  When I do a File ->
Document Properties -> Fonts in Acrobat Reader, it says
the fonts used in the document are:

Helvetica-Bold
Times-Roman
Helvetica
Times-Italic
Times-Bold

The Sharp, Flat, and Natural characters are normal pound
sign characters in, what looks like to me, Times-Roman font.

Then I tried adding the following to userconfig.xml:

 <font metrics-file="$FULLPATH/arialuni.xml" kerning="yes"
embed-file="$FULLPATH/ARIALUNI.TTF">
    <font-triplet name="ArialUnicodeMS" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
 </font>

with the same results.

--
Don