Adding Fonts - Must I use absolute paths in fopconfig.xml?

[Scott Moore <sm...@novacoxmail.com>]

I've got my own servlet with FOP which reads a fopconfig.xml file that I
deploy with the servlet.  So far, so good.

However, when I added fonts to fopconfig.xml, I had a bunch of problems
until I hardcoded the path to the font under my servlet.  Obviously, this is
a problem because my servlet (supposedly) can be deployed anywhere and I
need to use a relative path for the font files.

I set the baseDir beforehand, but that doesn't seem to help.

This works:

<font metrics-file="C:\tomcat\webapps\reportserver\Conf\arial.xml"
kerning="yes" embed-file="C:\tomcat\webapps\reportserver\Conf\arial.ttf">

This doesn't:

<font metrics-file="Conf/arial.xml" kerning="yes"
embed-file="Conf/arial.ttf">


Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

Thanks for any help,
Scott

Re: Adding Fonts - Must I use absolute paths in fopconfig.xml?

[Keiron Liddle <ke...@aftexsw.com>]

This is a bug. The base is ignored when reading font information.

On 2002.05.01 15:23 Scott Moore wrote:
> I've got my own servlet with FOP which reads a fopconfig.xml file that I
> deploy with the servlet.  So far, so good.
> 
> However, when I added fonts to fopconfig.xml, I had a bunch of problems
> until I hardcoded the path to the font under my servlet.  Obviously, this
> is
> a problem because my servlet (supposedly) can be deployed anywhere and I
> need to use a relative path for the font files.
> 
> I set the baseDir beforehand, but that doesn't seem to help.
> 
> This works:
> 
> <font metrics-file="C:\tomcat\webapps\reportserver\Conf\arial.xml"
> kerning="yes" embed-file="C:\tomcat\webapps\reportserver\Conf\arial.ttf">
> 
> This doesn't:
> 
> <font metrics-file="Conf/arial.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="Conf/arial.ttf">
> 
> 
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Scott
> 
>