Re: [docbook-apps] Using custom fonts

Just for grins I tried several other fonts – Verdana, Tahoma, Garamond, Palatino Linotype – and all come out as they should. So far only Tahoma MS doesn't.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Alan Oehler <> wrote:

I tried switching to another font in the same directory as Trebuchet MS – this time Georgia – and lo and behold, the italics and boldness are back! So clearly fop seems to be able to find the fonts and it seems to be able to recognize the variants with Georgia just fine, but not with Trebuchet MS. Very strange.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Alan Oehler <> wrote:

@Martin,

That doesn't work. I get an exception: No output file specified

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Martin Doucha <> wrote:
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Dne 11.3.2015 v 17:39 Alan Oehler napsal(a):

> 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.

Let's check if FOP can really see the fonts you need. Copy your

/usr/bin/fop somewhere and open it with a text editor. On Gentoo, it

looks like this:

> #!/bin/bash gjl_package=fop gjl_main="org.apache.fop.cli.Main"

> source /usr/share/java-config-2/launcher/launcher.bash

gjl_main is the name of entry point class: "org.apache.fop.cli.Main"

Whatever your script looks like, search for that string (without

quotation marks) and change it to this:

org.apache.fop.tools.fontlist.FontListMain

Now run the modified launcher script like this:

./fop -c your/config/file.xml fontlist.pdf

The output file (fontlist.pdf) will contain samples of all fonts known

to FOP, one font per page.

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Regards,
Alan

 

Alan C. Oehler
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Regards,
Alan

 

Alan C. Oehler
Senior Technical Writer

Phone: 650-919-8856 | Email:  
Instart Logic | 450 Lambert Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306 | instartlogic.com

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Regards,
Alan

 

Alan C. Oehler
Senior Technical Writer

Phone: 650-919-8856 | Email:  
Instart Logic | 450 Lambert Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306 | instartlogic.com