Jeremias, Trying to isolate the culprit, I did some more experiments, with mixed results.
I created a text file containing eight of my installed TrueType fonts in both XSL-FO and in OpenOffice, and created PDFs using Fop 0.94 and OOo's PDF export, respectively (see http://www.intelsig.be/~piater/nobackup/fop/). The results in a nutshell: - The Fop-generated PDF is displayed only partially by all of my open-source PDF renderers (xpdf, gv, kpdf, evince). Fonts rendered correctly: - BitstreamVeraSerif - DejaVuSerif - LiberationSerif - GentiumBasic (downloaded from SIL's Web site) Fonts rendered invisibly (but copy-and-pastable nevertheless): - FreeSerif - cmr10 (from latex-xft-fonts) - LinuxLibertine - STIXGeneral (OTF from stixfonts.org converted to TTF using fontforge) - The Fop-generated PDF is read correctly by Acroread 8. - All fonts are correctly read and displayed by both OOo and ftview (the FreeType2 font viewer). - The OOo-generated PDF is read correctly by *all* viewers. There is no obvious conclusion: - It does not seem to be a Fop problem, since Acroread is unaffected. - It does not seem to be a FreeType problem, since all my open-source programs link against it, including the unaffected OOo and ftview. - And yet, all open-source viewers consistently fail on the Fop-generated output only. Two related comments: - The remarks on http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.94/fonts.html that character encoding is "Never correct" and copy/paste "won't work" seem overly strong; both mostly work for me, including non-ASCII characters (albeit with different gotchas depending whether I paste into, say, Emacs or a terminal). - That same page says that TrueType fonts are embedded as subsets, but pdffonts disagrees (see below). Not being a font expert, I am stuck for now. Before I file a bug against Fop, where could I take this? Or perhaps other Fop users can share relevant insight regarding the use of TrueType Unicode fonts with Fop? Thanks, Justus pdffonts on Fop output: name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- --------- Helvetica Type 1 no no no 13 0 8E6c57STIXGeneral CID TrueType yes no yes 17 0 4E6b8aBitstreamVeraSerif CID TrueType yes no yes 23 0 3E6b73LinuxLibertine CID TrueType yes no yes 35 0 5E6be2DejaVuSerif CID TrueType yes no yes 29 0 2E6b2dcmr10 CID TrueType yes no yes 41 0 6E6bfeLiberationSerif CID TrueType yes no yes 47 0 1E6ac4FreeSerif CID TrueType yes no yes 53 0 7E6c44GentiumBasic CID TrueType yes no yes 59 0 pdffonts on OOo output: name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- --------- BAAAAA+FreeSerif TrueType yes yes yes 29 0 CAAAAA+cmr10 TrueType yes yes yes 49 0 DAAAAA+BitstreamVeraSans-Roman TrueType yes yes yes 54 0 EAAAAA+LinLibertine TrueType yes yes yes 59 0 FAAAAA+BitstreamVeraSerif-Roman TrueType yes yes yes 44 0 GAAAAA+DejaVuSerif TrueType yes yes yes 34 0 HAAAAA+LiberationSerif TrueType yes yes yes 19 0 IAAAAA+GentiumBasic TrueType yes yes yes 24 0 JAAAAA+STIXGeneral TrueType yes yes yes 39 0 My complete fop.xconf: <?xml version="1.0"?> <fop version="1.0"> <strict-configuration>true</strict-configuration> <renderers> <renderer mime="application/pdf"> <fonts> <directory>/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/STIXBeta</directory> <directory>/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/GentiumBasic</directory> <auto-detect/> </fonts> </renderer> </renderers> </fop> Fop outputs the following, none of which I think is relevant to the above problems: Jan 18, 2008 10:14:22 AM org.apache.fop.fonts.truetype.TTFFile readKerning WARNING: Unicode index (1) not found for glyph 2870 Jan 18, 2008 10:14:22 AM org.apache.fop.fonts.truetype.TTFFile readKerning WARNING: Unicode index (1) not found for glyph 2870 Jan 18, 2008 10:14:22 AM org.apache.fop.fonts.truetype.TTFFile determineAscDesc WARNING: Ascender and descender together are larger than the em box. This could lead to a wrong baseline placement in Apache FOP. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
