RE: [docbook-apps] FOP 0.93: Cannot load fonts/NullPointerException

["Jeff Powanda" <jpowanda@vocera.com>]

Yes, I've tried using absolute URLs for both the <font-base> element and
the metrics-url attribute on the <font> element. Both still result in
the null pointer exception when I run FOP.

Regards,
Jeff Powanda
Vocera Communications
Senior Technical Writer
408-790-4256
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mauritz Jeanson [mailto:mj@johanneberg.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 2:42 AM
To: Jeff Powanda; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] FOP 0.93: Cannot load
fonts/NullPointerException

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Powanda 
> 
> I'm using the DocBook 1.72 XSL stylesheets with FOP 0.93. I 
> followed the Apache FOP instructions for regenerating font 
> metrics files, and I updated the FOP configuration file to 
> the new format. When I run FOP, I get the following exception.
> 
> SEVERE: Exception
> 
> java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot load font: failed to 
> create Source from metrics file SY______.xml
>
> It didn't seem to be loading any of the fonts. The 
> <font-base> in the configuration file was correct, so I don't 
> know why it couldn't load the files. I decided to update the 
> configuration file to use relative URLs based on the <base>. 
> When I ran FOP again, I got a NullPointerException:


Have you tried to use absolute URIs for either the <font-base> element
or
the metrics-url attribute on the <font> elements? These methods work for
me.

For example,

 <font-base>file:///c:/Java/fop-0.93/conf/</font-base>

or 

 <font metrics-url="file:///C:/Java/fop-0.93/conf/gara.xml"
kerning="yes" 
	 embed-url="file:///C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/GARA.TTF">
	  <font-triplet name="Garamond" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
 </font>

/MJ