Re: [docbook-apps] fop and embedding fonts

Thanks David,

I'm working on a Linux box, and was trying to use the fonts from my TeX installation.

I did finally succeed:

These lines in the fop configuration file:

<directory recursive="true">/AppDocs/tex/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype</directory>

<directory recursive="true">/AppDocs/tex/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1</directory>

That will automatically embed the fonts; if there is a type1 font with the same name as a truetype font, it wins (I guess because it comes second in the list). However, in my version of fop (1.1), subsetting type1 fonts is not supported.

Also, by specifying the body font in the stylesheets like this:

<xsl:param name="body.font.family" select="'NimbusRomNo9L-Regu, Meiryo'"/>

For Latin characters, the Nimbus fonts are used (it is a Times clone), and when it runs into characters not available in that font, it switches to Meiryo (a Japanese Unicode font).

thanks,

--Tim

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:57 AM, David Goss <goss@fstrf.org> wrote:

Do you have your conf file to set to look for system fonts:

<fonts>
<directory recursive="true">C:\Windows\Fonts</directory>
<auto-detect/>
</fonts>

If so, and if you have DroidSans available as a system font, it might be trying to pull the system version (which might an open type font, which FOP wouldn't support).

I've always had bad luck with FOP's font configuration. The only success I've ever had is just installing the ttf version of the font on the system.

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From: "Tim Arnold" <jtim.arnold@gmail.com>
To: "docbook-apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 10:44:42 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] fop and embedding fonts

Hi,
I'm attempting font-embedding with Apache FOP 1.1 with difficulties. Is there a tutorial on setting this up?

In my xsl customization layer I set "body.font.family" to 'Droid'.
<xsl:param name="body.font.family">Droid</xsl:param>

In my fo configuration file, I specify the TrueType font:
<font
embed-url="">
<font-triplet name="Droid" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>

specified in the renderer for application/pdf. When I compile the document, I don't see any errors or warnings, but Droid is not listed in the fonts, let alone being embedded.

But the settings have some effect though, since the body text in the pdf has '#' for each character that is supposed to be in the body font.

I am reading the fop fonts doc (with 1.1 the metrics are optional it says).
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.1/fonts.html

and the DocBook XSL Guide on fonts:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/AddFont.html

Anyone see what I'm doing wrong?
thanks,
--Tim

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