Christian, unfortunately this hasen't allowed me to import fonts just yet. I have tried both relative and absolute paths since - to no avail. I have tried absolute with forward slashes (java path syntax) and backslashes (windows path syntax - since this is a w2k platform) and have tried relative and URL style file naming. Which brings me to the next question: The config.xml has an entry dumpConfiguration which defaults to false. Can I override that to true in my userconfig.xml and where would that dump to ? Console doesn`t show anything. Is there anything else I need to specify ? TIA Axel "Beer, Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: 17/09/2001 14:06 Subject: AW: [Q] root directory for embedded font metric and ttf Please respond to files ? fop-dev If you use a relative path, the path where you start the programm from is the base-path. So in the case of your servlet it is the path from where you start the servlet-engine. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Montag, 17. September 2001 13:48 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [Q] root directory for embedded font metric and ttf files ? I am embedding FOP 0.20.1 into a servlet using the procedure described on the embedding page, including loading a user configuration file which I require to use non-standard fonts in my generated documents. The documentation for embedding extra fonts is missing information as to where FOP is looking for these fonts - the sample has an absolute path for the embed file and a relative path for the metrics file. For my command line tests as part of the stylesheet development, just having everything in the local directory worked out. Relative to what would I need to specify the path for the servlet ? Can I use some kind of java system resource setup to search the class path ? TIA Axel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]