> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Powanda
>
> I'm using the DocBook 1.72 XSL stylesheets with FOP 0.93. I
> followed the Apache FOP instructions for regenerating font
> metrics files, and I updated the FOP configuration file to
> the new format. When I run FOP, I get the following exception.
>
> SEVERE: Exception
>
> java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot load font: failed to
> create Source from metrics file SY______.xml
>
> It didn't seem to be loading any of the fonts. The
> <font-base> in the configuration file was correct, so I don't
> know why it couldn't load the files. I decided to update the
> configuration file to use relative URLs based on the <base>.
> When I ran FOP again, I got a NullPointerException:
Have you tried to use absolute URIs for either the <font-base> element or
the metrics-url attribute on the <font> elements? These methods work for me.
For example,
<font-base>file:///c:/Java/fop-0.93/conf/</font-base>
or
<font metrics-url="file:///C:/Java/fop-0.93/conf/gara.xml" kerning="yes"
embed-url="file:///C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/GARA.TTF">
<font-triplet name="Garamond" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>
/MJ
