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  • 1.  Greek Symbol problems with fop 0.95

    Posted 02-08-2009 07:34
    I am including unicode 0x03b8 (theta) in my docbook xml. Fop seems unable to
    render this anything else than '#'. I am only using base-14 fonts and theta
    should be included in its symbol font.
    Any idea how to make this work?

    Thanks,

    Marcel
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  • 2.  Re: [docbook-apps] Greek Symbol problems with fop 0.95

    Posted 02-08-2009 09:05
    Marcel Tromp wrote:
    > I am including unicode 0x03b8 (theta) in my docbook xml. Fop seems
    > unable to render this anything else than '#'. I am only using base-14
    > fonts and theta should be included in its symbol font.
    >
    > Any idea how to make this work?

    Find out how to ask FOP to load that font into the PDF

    http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/fonts.html#Base-14+Fonts

    Are you sure theta is 'included' in that font?

    Every font contains a particular set of glyphs. If no glyph can be found
    for a given character, FOP will issue a warning and use the glpyh for
    "#" (if available) instead. Before it does that, it consults a
    (currently hard-coded) registry of glyph substitution groups (see
    Glyphs.java in Apache XML Graphics Commons). This registry can supply
    alternative glyphs in some cases (like using space when a no-break space
    is requested). But there's no guarantee that the result will be as
    expected (for example, in the case of hyphens and similar glyphs). A
    better way is to use a font that has all the necessary glyphs. This
    glyph substitution is only a last resort.


    HTH


    regards

    --
    Dave Pawson
    XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
    http://www.dpawson.co.uk



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