Michael B. wrote: > > I'm currently evaluating XXE on an Ubuntu system and I'm having some > difficulty. Our intention is to purchase 5-10 professional licenses, > but before I can be authorized to make that purchase I need to prove to > the company that the software serves the intended purpose. I'm in day > two of the evaluation and my worry is that I'm not going to be able to > produce anything before it runs out.
No problem. Get you another evaluation key ( http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/evaluate.html ) and install it in your running copy. > > I'm trying to setup a standardized company branded stylesheet for > DocBook. This needs to include customized front page, headers/footers > and fonts. My main focus at the moment is fonts (the rest is yet to > come). I've been researching a number of different approaches to > getting "Maven Pro" and Tahoma to work with the xxe fop addon. Though apparently not the same problem, the approach described in this FAQ: --- When I convert documents written in Russian (or Polish or Czech or any non-western language) to PDF, almost all characters are replaced by the "#" character. Is there a workaround for this problem? --- http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/faq.html#custom_pdf_fonts fully applies to your main problem, that is, instructing FOP to map "Maven Pro" and Tahoma to the serif and sans-serif generic font families. Please note that only TTF fonts --not OpenType fonts-- are supported by the above facility. > All leads inevitably point to me needing to edit a config file somewhere. Not necessarily. See below. > I cannot find any such file on my system and I'm afraid if I just write > one from scratch it may not work with the fop addon. > > Are there any DECENT tutorials/links/guides that specifically describe > what I should be doing? You'll not find such tutorial because creating branded documentation is *not* the problem solved by XMLmind XML Editor. (Otherwise, we would have called our product "XMLmind Single Source Publishing Studio".) More information in this FAQ: --- How do I customize the HTML, PDF, RTF, etc, generated using the "Convert Document" menu? --- http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/faq.html#custom_deliverables This being said, XMLmind XML Editor has a number of useful features allowing to customize the deliverables (to a certain extent) and this, without having to tweak cryptic configuration files by hand. Namely: * Menu item Options|Customize Configuration|Customize Document Conversion Stylesheets See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/com.xmlmind.xmleditapp.kit.part.ConversionStylesheetsEditor.html * Menu item Options|Customize Configuration|Change Document Conversion Parameters See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/com.xmlmind.xmleditapp.kit.part.ConversionParametersEditor.html > Aside from proving xxe can produce branded > documentation, I also need to convince a bunch of engineers with no > technical writing experience that this is better than Word - so > usability is key. > > These are the links I have already tried > http://sagehill.net/docbookxsl/AddFont.html > > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/fonts.html > > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/addons_doc.html > -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
