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Posted to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Peer Brink <br...@riege.com> on 2004/01/05 13:09:28 UTC

Incorrect characters in FO / PDF under windows

Hello all,

I have a problem with incorrectly displayed characters when generating PDF from FO under windows. The problem does not occur under Linux. I generate the FO-files with saxon from docbook-xml. The wrong characters appear in headers and for example in intemized lists.

Example:

FO created under Linux:
<fo:marker marker-class-name="section.head.marker">1. Using DocBook</fo:marker>

FO created under Windows:
<fo:marker marker-class-name="section.head.marker">1. Using DocBook</fo:marker>

Why is there a difference between the two fo-files? Shouldn't they be equal?
Is there a problem with the xml-to-fo-generation or with the fo-to-pdf-generation?

To make it clear: windows-created pdf-files have incorrect characters when viewing the pdf under windows AND under linux. Linux-created pdf-files are correctly displayed under linux and under windows!

I'm using FOP-0.20.5.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Peer.




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Re: Incorrect characters in FO / PDF under windows

Posted by Peer Brink <br...@riege.com>.
OK, problem solved. It is a bug in the current dom4j-release (1.4). It does not occur in older versions. But it is already fixed in an actual CVS-snapshot of dom4j.

Tanks for any help.
Peer.


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Re: Incorrect characters in FO / PDF under windows

Posted by Chris Bowditch <bo...@hotmail>.
Peer Brink wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have a problem with incorrectly displayed characters when generating 
> PDF from FO under windows. The problem does not occur under Linux. I 
> generate the FO-files with saxon from docbook-xml. The wrong characters 
> appear in headers and for example in intemized lists.
> 
> Example:
> 
> FO created under Linux:
> <fo:marker marker-class-name="section.head.marker">1. Using 
> DocBook</fo:marker>
> 
> FO created under Windows:
> <fo:marker marker-class-name="section.head.marker">1. Using 
> DocBook</fo:marker>

<snip/>

Looks like an encoding problem. Perhaps you have Unicode characters in 
your XML file. Instead of embedding the unicode characters in the XML 
file it may be best to use a character entity reference, e.g.

&#x00C2;

If this doesnt help, please let us know what encoding your XML and XSL 
files are in. Thanks,

Chris



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