The code in the last email I sent you was incorrect, but I did get Tahoma font
working by using ditac.options.
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From: Caroline Leccese <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 6:23 PM
To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ditac] fonts with fop in ditac
Thank you so much M Shafie!!! I never would have figured this out!
We had an antlib macrodef so I added:
<attribute name="fop-xconf"
default="${base.lib}/ditac-3_14_0/plus/fop-2.8/fop/conf/fop.xconf"/>
and another argument to the executable:
<exec
executable="@{dita-processor}"
output="@{logfile}"
append="true"
failonerror="true">
...
<arg line="-foconverter FOP pdf '${fo.processor.fop} -c
@{fop-xconf}'" unless:blank="@{fop-xconf}" />
...
</exec>
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From: Hussein Shafie <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2024 5:18 AM
To: Caroline Leccese <[email protected]>
Cc: '[email protected]' <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ditac] fonts with fop in ditac
On 1/13/24 03:11, Caroline Leccese wrote:
>
> Does ditac register the fop.xconf file?
No. How could it do that?
> I can't figure out why fop is
> not using the Tahoma font in the PDF, Tahoma is in my system and
> fop.xconf is set to auto-detect system fonts.
>
> Using Antenna House, Tahoma displays in the PDF, but we have to use fop.
>
> We installed the ditac version with fop.
>
ditac invokes FOP as an external command-line tool. Therefore you must
make sure that this FOP external command-line tool has access to your
fop.xconf.
When ditac is installed with the bundled FOP, ditac auto-detects the
bundled FOP and will invoke it as if ditac command-line option
-fop DITAC_INSTALL_DIR/plus/fop-2.9/fop/fop
(-fop DITAC_INSTALL_DIR/plus/fop-2.9/fop/fop.bat on Windows)
were implicitly specified.
Note that:
-fop DITAC_INSTALL_DIR/plus/fop-2.9/fop/fop
is a shorthand for low-level options:
-foconverter FOP pdf '"DITAC_INSTALL_DIR/plus/fop-2.9/fop/fop" -q -r -fo
"%I" -pdf "%O"'
and:
-foconverter FOP ps '"DITAC_INSTALL_DIR/plus/fop-2.9/fop/fop" -q -r -fo
"%I" -ps "%O"'
--> It's these low-level command line options, not the shorthand option,
which may be used for example to specify a configuration file for Apache
FOP.
For example (on Linux):
-foconverter FOP pdf '"DITAC_INSTALL_DIR/plus/fop-2.9/fop/fop" -q -r -c
"/home/john/conf/fop.xconf" -fo "%I" -pdf "%O"'
More information in:
- "Making Configuration Available to FOP",
https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/2.9/configuration.html
- "Command-line options used to configure ditac",
https://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/webhelp/commandLine.html#commandLine__I_ypiuz4_
- "The ditac.options file",
https://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/webhelp/commandLine.html#commandLine__ditac_options_file
which is convenient to store long options like "-foconverter FOP pdf ...".
For example, creating "/home/hussein/.ditac/ditac.options" on my Linux
box where "ditac.options" contains:
---
-foconverter FOP pdf
'"/home/hussein/ditac_site/site/_download/ditac-3_14_1/plus/fop-2.9/fop/fop"
-q -r -c "/home/hussein/.xxe10/fop/fop.conf" -fo "%I" -pdf "%O"'
---
allowed me to automatically pass configuration file
"/home/hussein/.xxe10/fop/fop.conf" to FOP when ditac+bundled FOP is
used to generate a PDF file.
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Caroline Leccese
Stylesheet Developer
[email protected]
CADIT Inc
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