FOP embed font --> umlauts are not displayed

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lidl
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FOP embed font --> umlauts are not displayed

Post by lidl »

Hi @all

I have the following problem on which, I hope, you can help me.
Im searching for an Solution for days :(...

I have an xls-fo file which should use Helvetica & Helvetica Bold, so I created a PFM & a XML-Metrics file form a PFB-file.

The output-PDF looks good, and also the font was successfullly embed by FOP, but only umlauts are not displayed.

My xls-fo file looks like the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:xdt="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-datatypes" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="default-page" page-height="11in" page-width="8.5in" margin-left="0.6in" margin-right="0.6in">
<fo:region-body margin-top="0.79in" margin-bottom="0.79in"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="default-page" initial-page-number="1" format="1">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block>
<fo:inline font-family="Helvetica">Helvetica ÖÄÜ öäü</fo:inline>
<fo:block break-after="page">
</fo:block>
<fo:block id="SV_RefID_PageTotal"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>

The font-reference in the FOP-config:
...
<font metrics-url="fonts/Helvetica/HVYU____/HVYU____.xml" kerning="yes" embed-url="fonts/Helvetica/HVYU____/HVYU____.pfb">
<font-triplet name="Helvetica" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>
...

The PDF-File contents only
"Helvetia", and after that word 8 Whitespaces (1 Real, 1 for Ö, 1 for Ä and so on...)

When I mark the (ö) whitespace and copy & paste it into a notepad i can see these letters correctly.

What's wrong? I can't find it.

Here is the Metric-XML-File if it's usefull.
http://www.echtbruckner.at/HVYB____.xml
sorin_ristache
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Re: FOP embed font --> umlauts are not displayed

Post by sorin_ristache »

Hello,
lidl wrote:When I mark the (ö) whitespace and copy & paste it into a notepad i can see these letters correctly.

What's wrong? I can't find it.
It seems that paragraph of the PDF file does not use the Helvetica font. Are you sure Helvetica is embedded in the PDF file?


Regards,
Sorin
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