Re: [docbook-apps] Using custom fonts

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Alan Oehler <>
Date
2015-03-11T17:20:07+00:00
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Re: [docbook-apps] Using custom fonts
Thanks for the ideas.

As far as the fop xconf file, I tried both – I first specified the path for each of the four variants of Trebuchet MS and for Consolas; then I tried Thomas' suggestion. In both cases it works the same – the italic and bold do not appear in the PDF output. 

I'm thinking maybe I'm missing some parameter settings. In my XSL customization layer I have

<xsl:param name="body.font.family">Trebuchet MS</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="monospace.font.family">Consolas</xsl:param>

I was assuming that the base family name was the only parameter value, needed but maybe I'm missing something?

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Aaron DaMommio <> wrote:

I had problems like this as well when switching to FOP. 

I had to be very careful with parameter settings in my customization layer, like body.font.family.

We had been using XEP, and in modifying my layer for FOP, I found it would often not find the italics version of the body font. In some cases I limited some items to an italic font.

With XEP, I'd provide a list of fonts or just the base font name, and it would find the italic version, but with FOP, it wouldn't. 

--Aaron DaMommio 

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Alan Oehler <> wrote:

Any other ideas about what might be wrong here? I've Googled a bunch and I find some places where people had trouble with HTML output not being italic or bold when expected, but pretty much reached a dead end on fop PDF output.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Alan Oehler <> wrote:

Made that change, and it didn't help the emphasis issue.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Thomas Schraitle <> wrote:
Hi Alan,

Am Freitag, 6. März 2015, 23:28:56 schrieb Thomas Schraitle:

>

> > I created a fop config file to register Trebuchet as my basic body font

> > and Consolas as my monotype font.

> [...]

> >

> > I added all four variants of both fonts (normal, italic, bold and bold

> > italic). Is there some other detail I'm missing?

>

> "Register" Trebuchet? Which version of FOP do you use?

>

> As far as I know, registering a font is not needed anymore for >1.0.

I forgot to add my example. Here is an excerpt of the PDF renderer:

 <renderers>

  <renderer mime="application/pdf">

   <fonts>

    <!--

        register all the fonts found in a directory

        use recursive="true" to also include subdirectories

     -->

     <directory>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/</directory>

     <!-- automatically detect operating system installed fonts -->

     <auto-detect/>

   </fonts>

  </renderer>

 </renderers>

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Gruß/Regards

  Thomas Schraitle

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