[oXygen-user] hashtag on docbook 5 fop-PDF output -- why?

[Oxygen XML Editor Support (Sorin Ristache)]

Hi Robert,

Usually this problem is caused by the default mapping between the fonts 
used by FOP and the fonts installed in the operating system. The default 
fonts used by FOP do not contain the characters that are displayed as 
'#' in the PDF output, so you will have to find one or more fonts that 
are able to display these characters and you will have to set them in 
the Docbook PDF transformation.

First you should find a font installed on that system that is able to 
display the characters that were replaced with '#' in the PDF output. 
You should look in the list of fonts available to the Java Virtual 
Machine in order to see the font names available to Oxygen as Java 
application, because you will have to use such a font name in the 
Docbook PDF transformation. Please go to menu Edit -> Insert from 
Character Map and look for a font that contains the characters that we 
need (the characters that are displayed as '#' in the PDF output). When 
you find a font you have to set the font family name in the parameter 
called body.font.family of the Docbook PDF transformation.

You need a font name also in the title.font.family parameter. If you 
want a different font for the titles in the PDF output (chapter titles, 
section titles, example titles, etc) please find a second font that can 
display all the characters in the titles of your PDF output and set it 
in the title.font.family parameter. Otherwise you can set the same font 
family name in both body.font.family and title.font.family.

The above procedure helps you to find a font with all the needed 
characters in the list of fonts already installed in the operating 
system. If you can't find a font with this procedure you will have to 
find and configure an external font for the FOP processor. The procedure 
for that is:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/index.html#tasks/add-font-to-builtin-FOP.html


Best regards,
Sorin

http://www.oxygenxml.com


Robert Nagle wrote:
> HI, there,
> 
> I am helping a client use Oxygen to produce a PDF of my Docbook 5 
> project. (In case you are wondering, this is NOT the same client I asked 
> about last week --- but a different one from two years ago!)
> 
> The docbook 5 project is  valid. When I run the out-of-the-box Docbook 5 
> PDF (with FOP), I can generate the project  on my machine. But my client 
> generates a file successfully (with no errors or messages)  with the 
> latest XML Editor  -- except it's nothing but # characters.... I seem to 
> remember having encountered the same error before, but I don't remember 
> what I did with it.
> 
> Both of us have Win 7 64 bit versions. I Have Author 16 while my client 
> has Editor 16 which was just installed today.  We have made no 
> customizations yet to the transformation.
> 
> I'm guessing it's an encoding error, but I'm not sure where to go fix it 
> (or why a clean Editor install with a general Docbook 5-fop-pdf  would 
> give that kind of message). Do you have any ideas?
> 
> On another note, I want to thank* *Sorin for helping me with my problem 
> last week.
> 
> Robert