I got this to work after a little more investigation. It turns out that adding fonts to Apache FOP is much easier than it was years ago. I was able to get the free GNU Unifont (http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html), add the directory holding the *.ttf file to my Apache FOP configuration file, and now my PDFs render the vertical ellipsis.
Peter On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Peter Desjardins <peter.desjardins...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to use a vertical ellipsis (Unicode 22ee) in my DocBook > content. My body font family doesn't include a glyph for that > character. I found the workaround for switching font family for > symbols (http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SpecialChars.html#SwitchSymbol). > However, the default Symbol font also doesn't include the vertical > ellipsis. In my HTML output, I see the vertical ellipsis just fine. In > PDF I only see the replacement hash character. > > I think I'll need to add a font-family that supports my character to > my Apache FOP configuration. It looks like Arial Unicode MS has that > glyph, plus a lot more. > > Has anyone had to render obscure characters in PDF and can you share > the way you did it? Is adding a huge font family like Arial Unicode MS > a reasonable way to get the glyphs I need? > > Thanks! > > Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org