embedding fonts in PDF output

[catterall]

I would like to create PDF output with embedded fonts (specifically Lucida Grande) Is there any way I can do this with FOP (or XEP)?

[george]

Hi Ron,

I think we have an article about how to do that with FOP on the documentation page:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/documentation.html
Check the How to Add a Font to the <oXygen/> Built-in FOP article:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/addFontToFOP.pdf

Best Regards,
George

[catterall]

Thanks George, I have a ttf of LucidaGrande in Open Office, I'll have a go tomorrow.

Will this work with XEP as well? (If I have selected XEP in place of FOP in preferences)?

Ron

[dnedrow]

Will this work with XEP as well? (If I have selected XEP in place of FOP in preferences)?

Ron,

I believe font embedding/subsetting is configured in the xep.xml file. Take a look at section 2.4.1.1 of the XEP 4.x Reference.

-David

[catterall]

David - thanks for the ref to the XEP manal, I'll try that when I get the fop working

George -back to embedding fonts in fop

I tried following the 'How To' you pointed out and get a fail: (see fail message at bottom)

MacOS X 10.3.9 G4

dainzu:/~ ron$ cd /Library/Fonts

dainzu:/Library/Fonts ron$ ls -l
total 26864
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root admin 534828 17 Sep 2003 AmericanTypewriter.dfont
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root admin 333686 17 Sep 2003 Apple Chancery.dfont
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root admin 190500 17 Sep 2003 Apple Symbols.ttf
.
.
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root admin 1145248 25 Jan 2005 LucidaGrande.ttf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root admin 1139952 25 Jan 2005 LucidaGrandeBold.ttf
.
.
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root admin 524806 17 Sep 2003 Zapfino.dfont
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root admin 10668 12 Nov 2004 fonts.cache-1

dainzu:/~ ron$ cd /Applications/Utilities/oxygen/oxygen\ 7.0

dainzu:/Applications/Utilities/oxygen/oxygen 7.0 root# ls -l Oxygen.app/Contents/Resources
total 1192
-rw-r--r-- 1 ron admin 49151 11 May 2005 Oxygen.icns
-rw-r--r-- 1 ron admin 51451 20 Dec 03:40 OxygenCSS.icns
-rw-r--r-- 1 ron admin 41434 11 May 2005 OxygenDTD.icns
-rw-r--r-- 1 ron admin 53708 24 Aug 06:11 OxygenNRL.icns
-rw-r--r-- 1 ron admin 53845 24 Aug 06:11 OxygenRNC.icns
-rw-r--r-- 1 ron admin 53925 24 Aug 06:11 OxygenRNG.icns
-rw-r--r-- 1 ron admin 53821 24 Aug 06:11 OxygenSCH.icns
-rw-r--r-- 1 ron admin 52124 11 May 2005 OxygenWSDL.icns
-rw-r--r-- 1 ron admin 41625 11 May 2005 OxygenXML.icns
-rw-r--r-- 1 ron admin 41625 24 Aug 06:11 OxygenXQUERY.icns
-rw-r--r-- 1 ron admin 41611 11 May 2005 OxygenXSD.icns
-rw-r--r-- 1 ron admin 41274 11 May 2005 OxygenXSL.icns

dainzu:/Applications/Utilities/oxygen/oxygen 7.0 ron$ mkdir Oxygen.app/Contents/Resources/Java

dainzu:/Applications/Utilities/oxygen/oxygen 7.0 root# ls -ld Oxygen.app/Contents/Resources/Java
drwxr-xr-x 2 root ron 68 27 Jan 08:03 Oxygen.app/Contents/Resources/Java

dainzu:/Applications/Utilities/oxygen/oxygen 7.0 ron$ which java
/usr/bin/java

dainzu:/Applications/Utilities/oxygen/oxygen 7.0 ron$ cat ttfConvert.sh
#!/bin/sh
export LIB=oxygen.app/Contents/Resources/Java
export CMD="java -cp $LIB/fop.jar:$LIB/avalon-framework.jar:$LIB/xml-apis.jar:"
export CMD="$CMD$LIB/xercesImpl.jar:$LIB/xalanOxygen.zip org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader"
export FONT_DIR='/Library/Fonts'
$CMD $FONT_DIR/LucidaGrande.ttf LucidaGrande.xml
$CMD $FONT_DIR/LucidaGrandeBold.ttf LucidaGrandeBold.xml

dainzu:/Applications/Utilities/oxygen/oxygen 7.0 ron$ cat fopConfiguration.xml
<configuration>
<fonts>
<font metrics-file="LucidaGrande.xml" kerning="yes" embed-file="file:/Library/Fonts/LucidaGrande.ttf">
<font-triplet name="LucidaGrande" style="normal" weight="normal" />
</font>
<font metrics-file="LucidaGrandeBold.xml" kerning="yes" embed-file="file:/Library/Fonts/LucidaGrandeBold.ttf">
<font-triplet name="LucidaGrandeBold" style="normal" weight="bold" />
</font>
</fonts>
</configuration>

dainzu:/Applications/Utilities/oxygen/oxygen 7.0 ron$ sh ttfConvert.sh
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/fop/fonts/apps/TTFReader
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/fop/fonts/apps/TTFReader

dainzu:/Applications/Utilities/oxygen/oxygen 7.0 ron$

[sorin_ristache]

Hello Ron,

dainzu:/Applications/Utilities/oxygen/oxygen 7.0 ron$ mkdir Oxygen.app/Contents/Resources/Java

...

dainzu:/Applications/Utilities/oxygen/oxygen 7.0 ron$ cat ttfConvert.sh
#!/bin/sh
export LIB=oxygen.app/Contents/Resources/Java
export CMD="java -cp $LIB/fop.jar:$LIB/avalon-framework.jar:$LIB/xml-apis.jar:"
export CMD="$CMD:$LIB/xercesImpl.jar:$LIB/xalanOxygen.zip org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader"

The LIB variable must contain the path to the directory containing the files fop.jar, avalon-framework.jar, etc, that is the lib folder sibling of oxygen.app. You should not create it yourself with mkdir. Please use in ttfConvert.sh:

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export LIB=lib

just like in the Windows and Linux versions of the file. The lib directory was moved out of oxygen.app in a previous version but the LIB variable remained the same in the article. We will correct it.

Regards,
Sorin

[catterall]

Tried that with ttfConvert.sh -

dainzu:/Applications/Utilities/oxygen/6.2/oxygen ron$ cat ttfConvert.sh
#!/bin/sh
export LIB=lib
export CMD="java -cp $LIB/fop.jar:$LIB/avalon-framework.jar:$LIB/xml-apis.jar:"
export CMD="$CMD$LIB/xercesImpl.jar:$LIB/xalanOxygen.zip org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader"
export FONT_DIR='/Library/Fonts'
$CMD $FONT_DIR/LucidaGrande.ttf LucidaGrande.xml
$CMD $FONT_DIR/LucidaGrandeBold.ttf LucidaGrandeBold.xml

dainzu:/Applications/Utilities/oxygen/6.2/oxygen ron$

all I get now is -

dainzu:/Applications/Utilities/oxygen/6.2/oxygen ron$ sh ttfConvert.sh
TTF Reader v1.1.1

Reading /Library/Fonts/LucidaGrande.ttf...

Number of glyphs in font: 2826
Unicode cmap table not present
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0
at java.util.ArrayList.RangeCheck(ArrayList.java:507)
at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:324)
at org.apache.fop.fonts.TTFFile.createCMaps(TTFFile.java:449)
at org.apache.fop.fonts.TTFFile.readFont(TTFFile.java:439)
at org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader.loadTTF(TTFReader.java:222)
at org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader.main(TTFReader.java:184)
TTF Reader v1.1.1

Reading /Library/Fonts/LucidaGrandeBold.ttf...

Number of glyphs in font: 2826
Unicode cmap table not present
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0
at java.util.ArrayList.RangeCheck(ArrayList.java:507)
at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:324)
at org.apache.fop.fonts.TTFFile.createCMaps(TTFFile.java:449)
at org.apache.fop.fonts.TTFFile.readFont(TTFFile.java:439)
at org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader.loadTTF(TTFReader.java:222)
at org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader.main(TTFReader.java:184)
dainzu:/Applications/Utilities/oxygen/6.2/oxygen ron$

and the files LucidaGrande.xml and LucidaGrandeBold.xml are not created

[sorin_ristache]

Hello Ron,

I cannot find the files LucidaGrande.ttf and LucidaGrandeBold.ttf in the font directory of Windows or Mac OS. I think they are not standard fonts. In order to try to see what is wrong please send the two .ttf files to support at oxygenxml dot com.

Regards,
Sorin

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

Thank you for the files. As you discovered and told us in an email the TrueType font files that you are trying to configure to Apache FOP for inclusion into a generated PDF document don't include a character map for mapping the characters of the font to Unicode, which the TTF reader embedded in FOP requires. The same script works fine for Unicode enabled TrueType fonts, for example Arial Unicode. There are tools for converting an existing character map table but not for creating such a table. I think you will have to use Unicode enabled fonts with Apache FOP.

I hope that helps,
Sorin

[thesaint]

I found a way to "fix" Mac fonts, that often are bundled in resource or .dfont files or don't have the correct encoding. You need two programs: Fondu and FontForge, both can be installed via Fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net). And this is how it works:

Extract the Font on the command line with fondu (Fonts that are .dfont bundles or resource bundles need extraction, fonts with the .ttf suffix don't need this step):

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fondu path/to/font

Fondu will extract the ttf files from the font

Try extracting the metrics. if you get the following error messages:

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Unicode cmap table not present

Unsupported format: Aborting

you must reencode the font with fontforge:

Start x11 and fontforge. Open the ttf file.
Select "Encoding -> Reencode -> Windows Latin (ANSI)".
Select "File -> Generate Fonts" and save the font as ttf or type1 font.

[sorin_ristache]

Select "Encoding -> Reencode -> Windows Latin (ANSI)".

What happens with the characters that are not included in the Windows Latin (that is CP-1252) encoding if the font contains such characters?


Regards,
Sorin