+1 to move this interesting issue to dev ML
Jacques
De : "Oleg Andreyev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi Krzysztof,
>
> It's something wrong.
> To build multilanguage applications people invent UNICODE. To ensure
> unified look of a document anywhere Abobe was created Acrobat.
> Document created by FOP can be in any language (if used fonts have
that
> language section of course). PDF in Polish with embed fonts remain
> readable anywhere.
>
> Current OfBiz reports have no instructions what fonts must be used.
And
> it's bottom of the problem. Base-14 fonts must be available to
every PDF
> reader but not any reader is localized. I think we have to select some
> widely used font (е.g Arial, TTF I think as low overhead), modify
> reports to use it, add in trunk all required files. In this case we
> obtain printing that will work OOTB anywhere (I hope:-).
>
> What about move this thread to dev ML?
>
> Krzysztof Podejma пишет:
> > thanks for the link I'll check it.
> >
> > I thought about font parameterizing for one greater purpose.
Consider
> > multilingual system, now it is not possible to have reports in
Chinese
,
> > Russian, French etc. on one build(at once). If it would be
possible to
> > associate font with locale and pass this font to reports, we
would get
> > truly
> > multilingual system. No more broken encoding, automatic
document/report
> > translation and etc.
> > Of course this would require teplates(table size etc.) for fonts but
it
> > would work without it too.
> >
> > I have tested this and it works.
> >
> > placed
> > <#if (defaultFontFamily?exists)><#if (defaultFontFamily != "
> > pdf.default.fontfamily" && defaultFontFamily != "")>
> > font-family="${defaultFontFamily}" </#if></#if>
> > into <fo:page-sequence master-reference="main-page"> in
> > reportTemplate.fo.ftl
> >
> > <property-to-field field="defaultFontFamily" resource="general"
> > property="
> > pdf.default.fontfamily" default=""/>
> > into actions in FoReportDecorator
> >
> > pdf.default.fontfamily=Arial
> > into general.properties
> >
> > maybe it is not elegant but it works, test it with your font if you
like.
> >
> > Krzysztof Podejma
> >
> > 2007/6/28, Oleg Andreyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Krzysztof Podejma пишет:
> >> > in trunk - current distribution default value would stay as it is
now,
> >> > and
> >> > nobody will change it to font that use metrics that aren't in
trunk.
> >> > I think it is good idea to change default font in one place
instead
of
> >> > modifying all reports each.
> >> IMHO, for custom solutions replace works faster:) But you are right
on
> >> the whole.
> >> >
> >> > if you want to have more than one font in your pdf you can always
> >> > override a
> >> > font-family for block or for entire document.
> >> > this property would have ability to not take effect if not set
> >> >
> >> > Nobody wants to crash anything, we want to have less work because
> >> we use
> >> > non-English characters and it is a pain to track all new pdf's
and
> >> > check if
> >> > they print correctly.
> >> >
> >> > +1 fop.xconf
> >> > AFAIK fop.xconf is necessary for custom fonts but you cannot set
> >> default
> >> > font in fop.xconf, correct me if I'm wrong
> >> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.93/fonts.html
> >> Pay attention to last topic. Theoretically if you have font
Helvetica
> >> you can embed it as any other.
> >>
> >>
> >> > We need this property because we have fop.xconf and font metrics
> >> > installed
> >> > and we don't want to modify and/or merge all pdf files.
> >> >
> >> > Krzysztof Podejma
> >> >
> >> > 2007/6/27, Oleg Andreyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> >>
> >> >> -1
> >> >> There are no universal solutions in this field.
> >> >> What's happened if somebody will add Arial(or Tahoma, or
something
> >> else)
> >> >> as value this property in current distribution?
> >> >> Nothing. Just another error message in log.
> >> >> I have the same problems with Cyrillic fonts but apart from
> >> accessible
> >> >> programmatically default font name we need right fop.xconf,
> >> metrics and
> >> >> fonts itself installed in the system. Such property may be
useful
> >> only
> >> >> if you well understand the rest configuration tasks. This is a
> >> point of
> >> >> mistake.
> >> >>
> >> >> As remark. I'd like to see standard fop.xconf in the trunk. One
from
> >> FOP
> >> >> distribution just well commented and can be used as guide by new
> >> users
> >> >> and developers.
> >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-990
> >> >>
> >> >> If fop.xconf will in trunk, it would be rightly move page
> >> height/width
> >> >> to config as part of the localization process. Now these
hardcoded
> >> tags
> >> >> define Letter, not widely used paper format outside US.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Krzysztof Podejma пишет:
> >> >> > yes me too +1 general.properties with default fop font
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > 2007/6/27, Jacques Le Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> +1 for general.properties
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Jacques
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> De : "Krzysztof Podejma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> >> >> > big thanks it works perfect.
> >> >> >> > I think the pdf font should be parametrized somewhere in
> >> properties
> >> >> >> i.e
> >> >> >> > general.properties
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > I've found that there are used two different fonts: one
when
you
> >> >> set
> >> >> >> > font-family="" and another one when you dont't specify this
> >> >> attribute.
> >> >> >> > maybe the second one is set somewhere...
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Krzysztof Podejma
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > 2007/6/27, Christian Geisert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> >> >> > >
> >> >> >> > > Krzysztof Podejma schrieb:
> >> >> >> > > > Hello,
> >> >> >> > > > I need polish characters in pdf files, so I have to set
FOP
> >> >> >> default
> >> >> >> font
> >> >> >> > > to
> >> >> >> > > > Arial.
> >> >> >> > > > I've configured fop.xconf to use Arial and generated
font
> >> >> files.
> >> >> >> > > > It works well when I change font-family for blocks
in fo
> >> files
> >> >> >> but I
> >> >> >> > > don't
> >> >> >> > > > want to modify all files.
> >> >> >> > >
> >> >> >> > > You can declare the font-family in the fo:root element
which
> >> >> >> means you
> >> >> >> > > don't have to do it on every block, just once per
document.
> >> >> >> > >
> >> >> >> > > > Do you happen to know how to do this?
> >> >> >> > >
> >> >> >> > > The default-value for the font-family property is
'sans-serif'
> >> >> >> > > (Helvetica) which is hard coded in FOP.
> >> >> >> > >
> >> >> >> > > But if you work with FoDecorator/FoReportDecorator -
which
you
> >> >> >> should
> >> >> >> > > should do IMHO - you can declare it there and don't
have to
> >> worry
> >> >> >> about
> >> >> >> > > in every report.
> >> >> >> > >
> >> >> >> > > --
> >> >> >> > > Christian
> >> >> >> > >
> >> >> >> > >
> >> >> >> > >
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >>
>
