Re: Font characters showing up as pound signs

2003-12-08 Thread John Root
On 12/8/03 8:09 AM, Benji Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Background: We are trying to get an e with a line over it to show up in a PDF document which is being generated from an XML files with fop. The character ends up ad a pound sign in the PDF, though from the same XML file, the character

Re: Font characters showing up as pound signs

2003-12-08 Thread Benji Spencer
John/Chris I am not sure I am using the correct decimal code for the glyph. The one I think I want is x0113 (an e with a straight line over it going horizontal). However based on what Chris gave me, that is the right one. How do I tell if the font contains the glyph I need? (the font came from

RE: Font characters showing up as pound signs

2003-12-08 Thread Benji Spencer
Andeas I read about the problems with fonts so I did encode things as WinAnsi. The statement As shown in the above table, regardless of whether the font is embedded or not, text generated from a CID-keyed font metrics file will never be encoded properly led me to believe that *is* the right

RE: Font characters showing up as pound signs

2003-12-08 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
-Original Message- From: Benji Spencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I read about the problems with fonts so I did encode things as WinAnsi. The statement As shown in the above table, regardless of whether the font is embedded or not, text generated from a CID-keyed font metrics file

Re: Font characters showing up as pound signs

2003-12-08 Thread Rodolfo M. Raya
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:16, Benji Spencer wrote: For the arial.xml file, I see that it says last-char is 255. The HTML character representation for what I need is #275; That could be the problem? Make sure that you work with MS Arial Unicode and not just Arial. Unicode version of Arial

RE: Font characters showing up as pound signs

2003-12-08 Thread Benji Spencer
Andrea (and all) Thanks for your help. Regenerating the metrics solved the problem. While some functionality is missing by using CID-keyed, at least the characters are displayed :) Thanks for your help on this issue (and explaining the documentation a little). Benji Aha! It's not a _bad_ thing,

RE: Font characters showing up as pound signs

2003-12-08 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
-Original Message- From: Benji Spencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrea (and all) ^ s ;) Cheers, Andreas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL