Problem with font encoding in resulting PDF

[Markus Ruggiero <ma...@kataputt.com>]

Hi list,

I have a problem with font encoding that I was not able to find a solution in the list archive. This is MacOSX with Java SE6 and FOP 1.0. Please bear with me as I am new to XSLT and FOP.

The following character does not make it into to final PDF: → (Unicode #8594). The input XML is generated correct, showing the correct char when dumping to Eclipse console with System.out.println(myXML), encoding is UTF-8, the XSL is correctly set to UTF-8. However the resulting PDF shows a # instead of the desired character. Analysis of the PDF with Acrobat shows that the text is encoded ANSI with font Helvetica. How can I specify UTF-8? Helvetica does have the correct arrow char as pasting the XML file into BBEdit set to UTF-8/Helvetica also shows the correct character. Capturing the intermediate fo data and dumping it to Eclipse console also shows everything as it should be.

I use the following code to generate the resulting PDF byte[]. The code is right from the examples section on xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/embedding. The data is then downloaded as PDF to the browser.

Thanks for any help
---markus---

   private byte[] xml2pdf(URL xslt, String xml ) {
    	ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    	try {
    		// Setup input and output files
    		File xsltfile = new File(xslt.getPath());
    		// configure fopFactory as desired
    		FopFactory fopFactory = FopFactory.newInstance();
    		FOUserAgent foUserAgent = fopFactory.newFOUserAgent();
    		// configure foUserAgent as desired
    		try {
    			// Construct fop with desired output format
    			Fop fop = fopFactory.newFop(MimeConstants.MIME_PDF, foUserAgent, out);
    			// Setup XSLT
    			TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
    			Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(xsltfile));
    			// Set the value of a <param> in the stylesheet
    			transformer.setParameter("versionParam", "2.0");
    			// Setup input for XSLT transformation
    			Source src = new StreamSource(new StringReader(xml));
    			// Resulting SAX events (the generated FO) must be piped through to FOP
    			Result res = new SAXResult(fop.getDefaultHandler());
    			// Start XSLT transformation and FOP processing
    			transformer.transform(src, res);
    		} 
    		finally {
    			out.close();
    		}
    	} 
    	catch (Exception e) {
    		e.printStackTrace(System.err);
    	}
		return out.toByteArray();
    }
 

Re: Problem with font encoding in resulting PDF

[Glenn Adams <gl...@skynav.com>]

You did not provide the most important details, namely the input FO and the
output PDF. In any case, it is most likely that you are not specifying a
font that contains the desired character. Try specifying

<fo:inline font-family="Arial Unicode MS">&#x8594;</fo:inline>

Of course, you will need to make sure you have this font (arialuni.ttf)
installed in ~/Library/Fonts or in /Library/Fonts/Microsoft.

G.

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Markus Ruggiero <mailinglists@kataputt.com
> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I have a problem with font encoding that I was not able to find a solution
> in the list archive. This is MacOSX with Java SE6 and FOP 1.0. Please bear
> with me as I am new to XSLT and FOP.
>
> The following character does not make it into to final PDF: → (Unicode
> #8594). The input XML is generated correct, showing the correct char when
> dumping to Eclipse console with System.out.println(myXML), encoding is
> UTF-8, the XSL is correctly set to UTF-8. However the resulting PDF shows a
> # instead of the desired character. Analysis of the PDF with Acrobat shows
> that the text is encoded ANSI with font Helvetica. How can I specify UTF-8?
> Helvetica does have the correct arrow char as pasting the XML file into
> BBEdit set to UTF-8/Helvetica also shows the correct character. Capturing
> the intermediate fo data and dumping it to Eclipse console also shows
> everything as it should be.
>
> I use the following code to generate the resulting PDF byte[]. The code is
> right from the examples section on
> xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/embedding. The data is then downloaded as
> PDF to the browser.
>
> Thanks for any help
> ---markus---
>
>    private byte[] xml2pdf(URL xslt, String xml ) {
>     ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
>
>      try {
>      // Setup input and output files
>     File xsltfile = new File(xslt.getPath());
>      // configure fopFactory as desired
>     FopFactory fopFactory = FopFactory.newInstance();
>
>      FOUserAgent foUserAgent = fopFactory.newFOUserAgent();
>
>      // configure foUserAgent as desired
>      try {
>     // Construct fop with desired output format
>     Fop fop = fopFactory.newFop(MimeConstants.MIME_PDF, foUserAgent, out);
>      // Setup XSLT
>     TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
>     Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(newStreamSource(xsltfile));
>      // Set the value of a <param> in the stylesheet
>     transformer.setParameter("versionParam", "2.0");
>      // Setup input for XSLT transformation
>     Source src = new StreamSource(new StringReader(xml));
>
>      // Resulting SAX events (the generated FO) must be piped through to
> FOP
>     Result res = new SAXResult(fop.getDefaultHandler());
>      // Start XSLT transformation and FOP processing
>     transformer.transform(src, res);
>     }
>     finally {
>     out.close();
>     }
>     }
>     catch (Exception e) {
>     e.printStackTrace(System.err);
>     }
> return out.toByteArray();
>     }
>
>
>