Friends, I am converting documents from XML using XSL into FO files then using FOP to convert these into PDF.
The problem I am having is that some of my NCR are not transforming (Numeric Character Reference). My FO file is correct. The Character NCR is retained "&# 299;" (space added so that you can see what the NCR is without the space it could appear correctly or incorrectly) in the FO file. Unicode "012B" in Latin Extended A (0100--017F) http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?ucode=012B I succefully created metric xml files for my userconfig.xml file. Using only the font-family "Arial" (arial.xml), all characters are displayed correctly when the -c userconfig.xml is given as an option in the command line. fop -c conf\userconfig.xml -fo file.fo -pdf file.pdf When the document is open in Acrobat 5, I try to search words that appear in the Arial font. I get no results. Nothing is found by the Acrobat search tool. However, if I transform all text in the Base font (Times), and only the one character (&# 299;) in the "Arial" font, I can find the whole word up to that character. I have even looked through the cid-fonts.fo file as well. Basically all characters that are not in the Base 14 font sets are unsearchable. The Apache site even confirms this being the result of using metric fonts for these characters. (quote) When embedding TrueType fonts, a new font, containing only the glyphs used, is created from the original font and embedded in the pdf. Currently, this embedded font contains only the minimum data needed to be embedded in a pdf document, and does not contain any codepage information. The PDF document contains indexes to the glyphs in the font instead of to encoded characters. While the document will be displayed correctly, the net effect of this is that searching, indexing, and cut-and-paste will not work properly. http://xml.apache.org/fop/fonts.html#embedding I thought that this paragraph was directed to ttf files only. So I tried the ttc files. But the results were still the same. Any characters that are not part of the Base 14 fonts (transformed from embedded fonts) will not be able to be searched in the pdf output file. I know my XML XSL transformation is no problem, since I regularly transform XML into HTML or SGML. So, I am trying to fix the problem that occurs between the FO file and the PDF output file. I am using Windows 2000. Any suggestions? Sincerely, Mike Ferrando Washington, DC XML: <element>Solov&# 299;</element> (space added) -------- S & R '&#' with '& amp;#_' -------- FO: <fo:inline>Solov& amp;#_299;</fo:inline> (space added) -------- S & R '& amp;#_' with '&#' -------- PDF: Solov# __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
