Since I'm lucky enough to have Acrobat X, I can just open the .pdf output
and touch up the font property of the problem character. Takes the urgency
off the question, but I would still like to know how to achieve the
required result by making more informed use of XXE … and for the time
being, I'm still very confused :-{
*what I've seen happen*
the default .pdf conversion does not render a glyph I select from the XXE
symbols pallette correctly, even though it is displayed on screen
*what you've explained*
this is what we can expect, because by default the .pdf conversion uses the
Symbol font that does not contain this glyph
*what I need to do*
I imagine, from your explanation and from other experiments, this is a
two-step procedure:
1. include a font (for example, Letter Gothic Standard) in the "embed
fonts" list in the FOP options
2. edit the attribute set in the custom XSLT stylesheet to make .pdf
conversion use this font – for example, <uicontrol font-family="Letter
Gothic Standard">
*what the FAQ say*
*A:* By default, PDF uses its 14 built-in fonts: Times, Helvetica, Courier,
Symbol and ZapfDingbats. These fonts have glyphs only for the western (AKA
Latin1) languages. Therefore you need to substitute to these built-in fonts
truly multilingual fonts [...] This can be done from within XMLmind XML
Editor. More information in XMLmind XML Editor - Online Help, Apache FOP
options and RenderX XEP options
The link to Apache FOP options takes me to *6.13. Add-on options > 6.13.1.
Apache FOP options > Procedure 9.2. How to choose specific fonts (for
example, you want to replace Times fonts by Georgia fonts)*
I have read, re-read and experimented – complete lack of success :-{
- the procedure says nothing about *replacing *or *substituting* – it
just talks about adding a TTF font to the list
- the list looks as though it's related to the 14 standard PS fonts …
but does not include Symbol or ZapfDingbats
- alerted by the warning about Windows, I've tried drag and drop from
C:\windows\fonts to the list … no luck on this Windows 7 PC; I've also
tried typing in the path and filename, and that doesn't work either
Following your advice to read the help topics on
editConversionStylesheetsAction and xslcustom.Customizer has improved my
general understanding, but I'm no nearer being able to carry out the one
piece of customisation I'm aiming for: telling FOP to use Letter Gothic
Standard instead of Symbol when rendering a UIcontrol element.
Any chance you can come up with a new way of guiding my idiot footsteps
through this task? unfortunately, I'm not managing to interpret either the
interface or the helps in a way that solves my problem. As I said, it is
less urgent now I've worked out how to adjust the final .pdf myself.
Thanks in advance!
Niels Grundtvig Nielsen
Technical Communicator
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