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

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

FOP has to be told to use the font for those characters.  It won't
automatically use it.  The example here shows how to customize it for Symbol
font, but you would use Arial Unicode MS for the font-family instead:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SpecialChars.html#SwitchSymbol

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Adams" <dga@sgi.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Publishing Character Entities (%isopub;) in PDF
from DocBook XML


>
> 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
>
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