Hello Heather,
I have made Japanese characters work in 0.8. I had similar problems as
yours earlier but few months of work got it right.
In short, the problem is with the Japanese fonts and the new version of
Forrest.
Please note that the instructions that you are following in the link are
right for pre 0.8 version of Forrest but need some changes for 0.8 version.
The steps that I remember having used are:
1) Choose a Japanese font, say MS Gothic
2) Convert this to .xml metrics, say gothic.xml (instructions are available
on the site that you have given)
3) In userconfig.xml direct the pdf generator to refer to this gothic.xml
for Japanese. (TILL HERE SAME STEPS as yours)
4) (CHANGE HERE for 0.8 version) INSTEAD OF SITEMAP put the reference to
userconfig.xml in the output.xmap as given below:
forrest\apache-forrest-0.8\plugins\org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.pdf/output.xmap
That should get the right fonts to work for you in the pdf file.
best wishes
Praveen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Phipps" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:24 AM
Subject: Japanese PDF rendering
Hello,
I am having trouble getting a Japanese XML document to display
properly in PDF form.
I set up the basic site that comes with Apache Forrest. The only
changes I made were to add the docbook dtd (v4.4) and the docbook
stylesheets from sourceforge and change the sitemap accordingly. I
then added a docbook file with Japanese text to the samples directory.
I followed the directions here:
http://www.terra-intl.com/agel/2005/11/forrest_japanese.html. Then
when I run Forrest, the html document is generated correctly, but the
PDF still has ####### instead of Japanese text. (New English XML
files display fine both in HTML and PDF format.)
Any ideas as to where I'm going wrong, or how I might start to debug?
Other info:
Mac OS 10.5.6
Java 1.5.0_16
Forrest 0.8
-Heather
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