[oXygen-user] Embedding a font in FOP for Oxygen

[Sorin Ristache]

Hello,

The instructions from the article "How to Add a Font to the Oxygen 
built-in FOP" are specific for DocBook and TEI transformations and are 
intended to give two examples of how you can configure and embed a 
custom font in PDF output generated with the Apache FOP processor. Do 
you try to transform a DocBook XML document or a TEI XML one to PDF?

If yes it seems something was wrong in applying the procedure described 
in the article. Please make a zip with a sample source XML file, the 
TrueType (.ttf) font files from which you generated the font metrics 
files, the font metrics files and the FOP configuration file. We will 
try to generate a PDF result with correct Czech glyphs and tell you what 
you did wrong.

If not you have to make sure that your custom XSLT stylesheet generates 
an intermediate XSL-FO file with correct references to the fonts 
specified in the FOP configuration file. The FOP processor has to match 
these references with the font metrics files specified in the FOP 
configuration file.


Regards,
Sorin


Mark Wilson wrote:
> I am using: XML Editor 9.3, build 2008070211
> 
> I need to render Czech language glyphs.
> Since 'C' appeared as '#' in my PDF output, I assumed I needed to embed 
> a font. I tried to embed Tlcenteu.ttf (Times Central Europe), following 
> the directions in your "How to Add a Font to the Oxygen built-in FOP". 
> It failed with an 'unexpected end of file' error.
> 
> So I went to http://www.sweb.cz/ls78/ttfonts.htm and downloaded Casy EA 
> and Casy EA Bold. This time what appear to be two good metrics files, 
> casy.xml and casy_0.xml, were built.
> 
> I added the fopConfiguration.xml file as instructed in your document, 
> changed my font name in the XSL file from "sans serif" to "casy", and 
> re-ran my transformation scenario. Although a good PDF file was 
> produced, it appeared to be identical to the previous file and again did 
> not render the Czech alphabet characters.
> 
> Have I missed a step?
> Thanks for any help,
> Mark