character encoding

[Filkorn Roman <Ro...@swh.sk>]

Hi !
 
I am new to FOP. I tried to process some text in slovak and I realized
that a few of our language-specific characters are not supported. I
searched through Adobe PDF spec and -- it is not in there either.
 
What can I do (how may I help) to add these characters ?
 
Thanks,
 
Roman Filkorn
 
p.s. src/codegen/charlist.xml
 
<map adobe-name="zcaron" win-ansi="0x009E" unicode="0x017E"/>   <!-- you
have win-ansi="-1"-->
<map adobe-name="Zcaron" win-ansi="0x008E" unicode="0x017D"/>
 
 

Re: character encoding

[Petr Andrs <pa...@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>]

Hi,

you need to use TTF embedding (since winansiencoding used natively in 
PDF and in standard PDF fonts does not cover all Slovak (and Czech) 
characters). You need to use CVS version since recent release (0.18.1) 
has some problems with TTF embedding. You have to embed unicoded TTFs - 
these dowloadable from Microsoft's Typography pages work fine. And 
using UTF-8 in FO documents is recommended.

To embed TTF fonts you need to generate metrics for the font and set it 
in userconfig.xml, furhter details in FOP documentation.

For viewing PDFs generated this way you need Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.05 
or newer.

pa

On 19 May 2001, at 18:16 Filkorn Roman wrote about character encoding :

> Hi !
>  
> I am new to FOP. I tried to process some text in slovak and I realized
> that a few of our language-specific characters are not supported. I
> searched through Adobe PDF spec and -- it is not in there either.
>  
> What can I do (how may I help) to add these characters ?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Roman Filkorn
>  
> p.s. src/codegen/charlist.xml
>  
> <map adobe-name="zcaron" win-ansi="0x009E" unicode="0x017E"/>   <!-- you
> have win-ansi="-1"-->
> <map adobe-name="Zcaron" win-ansi="0x008E" unicode="0x017D"/>
>  
>  
> 



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