Settings for Languages other than English?

[ehill]

I received files back in Bulgarian and after I create the PDF, the font doesn't show up. The translation company suggested maybe there was a setting that needs to be tweaked for this Cyrillic font. Is there something I need to do?

[adrian]

Hello,

The problem is that the characters you use aren't supported by the default font used for the PDF. You have to use and embed in the PDF a font that supports these characters(Cyrillic).

There is a procedure in the Oxygen User Manual for setting a font for the PDF output generated with the Apache FOP transformation:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... uiltin-FOP

Let us know if you need additional help or information.

Regards,
Adrian

PS:
If you have multiple projects you may want to omit the base tag from the fopConfiguration.xml and instead use absolute URLs. e.g.

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<font metrics-url="file:/Project/fonts/Arialuni.xml"

    embed-url="file:/Library/Fonts/Arialuni.ttf">

[ehill]

Nothing I've done is working. I'm using XEP is that makes a difference.

Thanks!

[adrian]

Hi,

If you're using XEP you can disregard my previous post, that only applies to Apache FOP.

To configure fonts in XEP look in the XEP User Guide:
http://www.renderx.com/reference.html#Configuring_Fonts
or look at this example:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/AddF ... figFontXep

Regards,
Adrian

[ehill]

Thank you. I found these instruction yesterday and tried following them several times. I'm sure it's something that's not coming together in my brain that prohibiting me from doing this. Also, I guessed on a lot of things that I didn't get from the instructions.

Here's what I did:
-copy and pasted ARIALUNI.TTF from the Windows location to C:\Program Files\Oxygen XML Author 11\plugins\XEP\fonts (this was a guess)

-In XEP Assistant:
Edited the "Base 14" fonts list to include "New Family" with the group "----" with the attributes: Base Path: file:/C:/Program Files/Oxygen XML Author 11/plugins/XEP/fonts/, embedded and subsetted are 'unspecified', font data is tff | ARIALUNI.TTF

-in xep.xml:
added <font-family name="New Family">
<font><font-data ttf="ARIALUNI.TTF"/></font>
</font-family>

What am I doing wrong?!

[adrian]

Hi,

You're getting close, there is one more thing to set and that is the DocBook transformation fonts. It's a DocBook document, right?

Edit the Docbook to PDF transformation(Document -> Transformation -> Configure Transformation Scenario, Edit) and press the Parameters button. Look in the list and change the following parameters:

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body.font.family

title.font.family

monospace.font.family (optional)

It's best to also use the default font as a failsafe.
So in your case you should set them as follows:

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body.font.family New Family,serif

title.font.family New Family,sans-serif

Let me know if you are encountering further difficulties.

Regards,
Adrian

PS:
One more thing that I forgot to mention you have to specify embed="true" for the font-family or for the font-group of that font family.

[ehill]

I haven't tried this yet, but no, it's a PDF document.

I'm sorry. I'm new to DITA and don't know all the info I needed to provide. I'm getting it...slowly.

[adrian]

OK, so the input XML(that's what I was asking about) is DITA.

For DITA you need to edit the DITA Open Toolkit font mappings. The file you have to edit is [oxygen-installation-folder]/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT/demo/fo/cfg/fo/font-mappings.xml

To simply replace the used fonts with your font look for:

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<logical-font name="Sans">

  <physical-font char-set="default">

    <font-face>Helvetica</font-face>

  </physical-font>

Replace "Helvetica" with your font family name, "New Family".

And in:

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<logical-font name="Serif">

  <physical-font char-set="default">

    <font-face>Times</font-face>

  </physical-font>

Again, replace "Times" with your font family name, "New Family".

Let me know if this worked for you.

Regards,
Adrian

[ehill]

Nope, I get a PDF with #### where the translated text (Bulgarian) should be.

[adrian]

In the XEP configuration file(xep.xml) in my tests I've added something like this to the fonts section just before the "Sample configuration for Windows TrueType fonts" :

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<font-group>

  <font-family name="Arialuni" embed="true"> 

    <font>

      <font-data ttf="arialuni.ttf"/>

    </font>

  </font-family>

</font-group>

Use a name without spaces, that might help. Also, adjust this accordingly in the 'font-mappings.xml' file.

Regards,
Adrian

[ehill]

IT WORKED IT WORKED (I think). I'm going to send it to the translation company to see if it's Bulgarian, but I definitely have some text in there. YAY!

Thank you so much for your time and patience!