Please see bz https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48481.
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Abel Braaksma <abel.onl...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Can you clarify? Because that's precisely what I wrote. Perhaps we have some > misunderstanding on what the font-selection-strategy means and/or what > "picked" means (who picks what by what criteria?). > > Can you provide a simple input (XML) output (XSL-FO) example that currently > renders incorrectly, but which is a little bit more elaborate then the > "A=E3=81=82" string example? I.e., how would you deal with the selection of > the font and what do you expect FOP to do for you? > > Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> We don't want to specify fonts char-by-char, we want them picked. >> >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Abel Braaksma <abel.onl...@xs4all.nl> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm under the impression that Benson means selection strategy based on >>> availability. Suppose the "A" is available in Candara, but the other >>> letters/symbols are not, and the needed font selection strategy is >>> "character by character" then the result must be similar to what you >>> wrote, >>> but automatically so. According to >>> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/fonts.html#selection this is not >>> implemented yet. >>> >>> Note that "auto" (which is implemented) means "the selection criterion is >>> implementation defined". For FOP that means (afaik) that word boundaries >>> and >>> element boundaries work and that the "largest portion of a text or word >>> that's available in a particular font" will be chosen. In the example >>> above, >>> the Gothic font will be used, because that has the largest part of the >>> word/text. >>> >>> Changing to "character-by-character" means that each character is >>> considered >>> individually. >>> >>> Naturally, if Candara would contain all capital letters only, choosing >>> character-by-character in the following: >>> >>> <fo:inline font-family="Caldara, 'Century >>> Gothic'">A=E3=81=82</fo:inline> >>> >>> then the rendering with character-by-character would be equivalent with >>> the >>> following: >>> >>> <fo:inline font-family="Caldara">A</fo:inline> >>> <fo:inline font-family="'Century Gothic'">=</fo:inline> >>> <fo:inline font-family="Caldara">E</fo:inline> >>> <fo:inline font-family="'Century Gothic'">3=81=82</fo:inline> >>> >>> Obviously, either this or the original example from Benson cannot be >>> achieved with current means (unless you add some rather prolific XSLT 2.0 >>> preprocessing, i.e., give it a list of fonts and do the selection >>> strategy >>> in the earlier processing step, using some home-brewed extension >>> functions, >>> which could be a possible alternative while waiting for the >>> implementation). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Abel >>> >>> >>> Jason Harrop wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I don't have a font called "MS Gothic" on my XP / Word 2007 PC, so >>>> i've used "Century Gothic" instead, but subject to that, and assuming >>>> the relevant fonts are available, isn't this just: >>>> >>>> <fo:block> >>>> <fo:inline font-family="Candara">A</fo:inline> >>>> <fo:inline font-family="Century >>>> Gothic">=E3=81=82</fo:inline> >>>> </fo:block> >>>> >>>> with a config such as: >>>> >>>> <fop version="1.0"> >>>> <strict-configuration>true</strict-configuration> >>>> <renderers> >>>> <renderer mime="application/pdf"> >>>> <fonts> >>>> <font embed-url="file:/C:/WINDOWS/FONTS/CANDARA.TTF"> >>>> <font-triplet name="Candara" style="normal" >>>> weight="normal"/> >>>> </font> >>>> <font embed-url="file:/C:/WINDOWS/FONTS/GOTHIC.TTF"> >>>> <font-triplet name="Century Gothic" style="normal" >>>> weight="normal"/> >>>> </font> >>>> </fonts> >>>> </renderer> >>>> </renderers> >>>> </fop> >>>> >>>> cheers .. Jason >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org >>> >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org >> >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org