FW: FOP, Cocoon, PDF and embedding images that reside on a different server.

[Philip Fennell <pf...@empolis.co.uk>]

I am using Cocoon to provide a pipeline to convert a list of image URLs in an XML file into a PDF document that contains all the referenced images.

This works fine if all the images are on the same server as Cocoon/Fop.

However, when the images are placed on a different server they do not appear in the PDF document. I'm using full http://rhubarb:8080/blah/blah/thingy.jpg URLs.

The same images are rendered in an HTML page that has been served-up from the same Cocoon sitemap. So I don't believe that it is anything Cocoon is doing.

I'd be surprised if someone hasn't hit this problem before but I haven't seen it yet in the archive.


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Re: FW: FOP, Cocoon, PDF and embedding images that reside on a different server.

[Oleg Tkachenko <ol...@multiconn.com>]

Philip Fennell wrote:

> I am using Cocoon to provide a pipeline to convert a list of image URLs in 
> an XML file into a PDF document that contains all the referenced images.
>
> This works fine if all the images are on the same server as Cocoon/Fop.
>
> However, when the images are placed on a different server they do not appear 
> in the PDF document. I'm using full http://rhubarb:8080/blah/blah/thingy.jpg 
> URLs.
>
> The same images are rendered in an HTML page that has been served-up from 
> the same Cocoon sitemap. So I don't believe that it is anything Cocoon is doing.

Chances are your server, where pdf is generated doesn't have 8080 port opened 
hence unable to open connection to the file, but browser, where html is 
browsed, has no problems with that port. Look at fop debug/error messages, 
probably fop complains about the image url.

-- 
Oleg Tkachenko
eXperanto team
Multiconn Technologies, Israel

Re: Embedded font problem in Outlook

[John Gentilin <ge...@eyecatching.com>]

I don't know if this is your problem but I had several problems using
CID encoded fonts. Adobe Acrobat complained and refused to open
the document. As a last ditch effort, I tried to produce Win ANSI encoded
fonts and the problems went away. TO do this create your font.xml files
using the -enc ansi option of TTFReader.  Note: My problem was not
really occurring when I was embedding fonts, only if I tried to reference
the font files (i.e. no embedFile="" in the font declaration), although if
I embedded the font I was having non consistent results from printer
to printer.

Regards
John G

Lucian Opris wrote:

> Hi,
> Could anyone tell me what is kerning in embedded font used for? As, I mentioned before I still have a problem with the pdf created by FOP and sent by Outlook. For example, if I attach a pdf in my yahoo personal e-mail and try to open up the pdf with outlook is ok, otherwise if I'm using Outlook to attach the same pdf and open up the pdf with outlook, the pdf is corrupted because of embedded fonts. If I'm not using embedded fonts, the pdf is ok in both cases. How can I set up my Outlook to recognize the embedded fonts from pdf? The error are : "There was an error processing a page . Too few operands."
> When I checked the document fonts for the pdf I've got Original Font= 2E58a3ArialNarrow, Bold
>                                                        Type = TrueType (CID)
>                                                        Encoding = Identity-H.
> Am I doing something wrong in embedding file attached? Or maybe the ttf file is not good. I've generated font xml file with TTFReader
>
> Thanks a lot
> Lucian Opris
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                        Name: config-fonts.txt
>    config-fonts.txt    Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
>                    Encoding: quoted-printable

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Embedded font problem in Outlook

[Lucian Opris <lu...@bluematrix.com>]

Hi,
Could anyone tell me what is kerning in embedded font used for? As, I mentioned before I still have a problem with the pdf created by FOP and sent by Outlook. For example, if I attach a pdf in my yahoo personal e-mail and try to open up the pdf with outlook is ok, otherwise if I'm using Outlook to attach the same pdf and open up the pdf with outlook, the pdf is corrupted because of embedded fonts. If I'm not using embedded fonts, the pdf is ok in both cases. How can I set up my Outlook to recognize the embedded fonts from pdf? The error are : "There was an error processing a page . Too few operands."
When I checked the document fonts for the pdf I've got Original Font= 2E58a3ArialNarrow, Bold
                                                       Type = TrueType (CID)
                                                       Encoding = Identity-H.
Am I doing something wrong in embedding file attached? Or maybe the ttf file is not good. I've generated font xml file with TTFReader

Thanks a lot
Lucian Opris