Re: Cross-platform fonts

On 16 Jun 2009, at 22:15, Sam Fuqua wrote:

Hi Sam

> Unfortunately, my problem still seems to be the same.  The console  
> always logs that Arial cound not be found, so it is defaulting to  
> "any", which I believe is mapped internally to 'Times'.  I'm using  
> Linux, so instead of Times New Roman, it's the Nimbus counterpart.  
> When the pdf comes up, the Latin text displays as expected, though  
> the Japanese text displays as '###', which would indicate a missing  
> glyph.  However, the character renders properly everywhere else on  
> my system.  I believe that the font has the glyph, but that FOP is  
> having trouble finding it.

No, it means that FOP is trying to use the Base14 Times font, which  
definitely does not contain any glyphs for non-western characters. The  
fact that the characters render properly in a web-browser or word-
processor on your system means that those applications actually  
perform font-selection behind the scenes (based on the availability of  
glyphs for a specific Unicode codepoint)

With FOP 0.95 or earlier, the user has to make sure the text-blocks in  
question have the correct font-family, in order to guarantee that they  
are rendered correctly. As suggested earlier, this can be achieved by  
wrapping Japanese words in a fo:wrapper with the right font-family.

For FOP Trunk, you can specify a list of font-families to try on the  
fo:root or fo:page-sequence. FOP 0.95 is not yet as clever, and will  
always only try the first family specified in the list in that case,  
but Trunk will perform basic, per-word font-selection. Per-character  
font-selection has not yet been implemented, but can be emulated by  
inserting zero-width spaces as boundaries.


Regards

Andreas

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