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Erik
Erik

Reputation: 75

Apache FOP: failed to load and use custom font

I want to use a custom font (Vito-Regular.otf) for the pdf documents generated inside a java programm - using Apache FOP 2.1.

Most of the samples found on the web refer to FOP 1.0 and .ttf fonts. So this will help me at all.

My FOP user config:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<fop version="1.0">
  <renderers>
    <renderer mime="application/pdf">
      <fonts>
        <font embed-url="file:C://Windows//Fonts//Vito-Regular.otf" kerning="yes" >
          <font-triplet name="Vito" style="normal" weight="normal" />
        </font>
      </fonts>
    </renderer>
  </renderers>

Using in the template:

    <fo:block-container font-size="9pt" font-family="Vito">

Will lead to use the default font (any) but not the (for me expected) Vito font:

WARNUNG: Font "Vito,normal,400" not found. Substituting with "any,normal,400".

So here are my main questions on this issue:

  1. Is there a way to check/read the loaded fonts in Apache FOP 2.1?
  2. Is the combination of 'Vito,normal,400' equivalent to name,style,weight?
  3. Is the configuration of the font correct set? Even not what have I overseen?
  4. Is the font correct referenced in the template?
  5. Is there a way to check if the font is compatible with Apache FOP?

Any help on these questions is appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4441

Answers (2)

Giuseppe Beccari
Giuseppe Beccari

Reputation: 497

It seams an URI problem under Windows (on OSX no problem). I have solved this issue with a few a workaround.

My java code is standard

String filename = "xfop.xml";
FopFactory fopFactory = FopFactory.newInstance(new File (filename));

First

<font-base>\\<computername>\C$\Windows\Fonts</font-base>

Second, please note note that localhost does not work, 

<font-base>\\127.0.0.1\Windows\fonts</font-base>

Third, I copy the fonts I need in (and this is my production solution)

<font-base>\\<server>\<share>\fonts</font-base>

Upvotes: 0

Scary Wombat
Scary Wombat

Reputation: 44813

My fop.xml is like this

<renderers>
<renderer mime="application/pdf">
  <fonts>
    <font embed-url="MSMINCHO.TTF" kerning="yes" sub-font="MS Mincho">
    <font-triplet name="MS Mincho" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
    <font-triplet name="MS Mincho" style="normal" weight="bold"/>
    </font>
  </fonts>
</renderer>

and my TTF file is in the same directory as my xml file.

So maybe you are either missing the sub-font tag or there is a problem with the file location and/or file type.

Upvotes: 0

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