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Posted to fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Srinivas Adusumalli <sr...@cisco.com> on 2010/05/17 06:50:29 UTC
Problem while trying to generate Multilingual PDF
Hi,
I am facing the routine problem with generating multilingual pdf using Apache FOP
Requirement: We should be able to generate PDF in Asian/multiple languages(Japanese, Chinese etcc.,) using Apache FOP
Current Set up: Current system is using Apache FOP to generate PDF in english at the runtime. The .fo file (containing information about the blocks and data to be written to PDF) and userconfig file(containing information about the fonts) content is constructed at the run time based on the data available in the Database.
Solution Tried so far: After analyzing i found that we need to embedd fonts related to japanese or chinese etcc specifically in to the PDF, following are the steps I followed to do the same.
1) Downloaded latest fop.jar (fop-0.95-bin.zip ) from http://mirrors.ecvps.com/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/
2) Created font metric files for ARIALUNI and MS Gothic fonts as specified at http://www.zvon.org/HowTo/Output/cid-fonts.pdf
3) Ensured that the userconfig.xml has the following font entries
<font metrics-file="ARIALUNI.xml" kerning="yes" embed-file="ARIALUNI.TTF">
<font-triplet name="Arial Unicode MS" style="normal" weight="normal" />
</font>
<font metrics-file="msgothic.xml" kerning="yes" embed-file="msgothic.ttc">
<font-triplet name="MS-Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>
4) Ensured that .fo file generated uses the above specified font for the certain blocks which contains the Japanese text.
Even after performing the above steps, I see the content being displayed as
つのコメントをテスト
or as ?????????????????????
instead of displaying it in Japanese text.
NOTE:
1) The japanese text that needs to be displayed is picked from the database, and in the database we see the information as つのコメントをテスト when we try to view it using TOAD. I am fetching the same information and displaying it in one of the text field in the page where in it is displaying appropriately as Japanese text (This is because i am setting the charset/pageEncoding to UTF-8).
2) There was no "MS Gothic.ttf" in C:\WINDOWS\fonts dir so i have used "MS Gothic.ttc" to generate the font metric file for the same initially and later i downloaded MSGothic.ttf from internet and tries the same , and in the userconfig.xml I tried to specify both (one at a time) for embed-file property
i tried the following entry once
<font metrics-file="MSGothic.xml" kerning="yes" embed-file="MSGothic.ttf">
<font-triplet name="MS Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>
and then
<font metrics-file="MSGothic.xml" kerning="yes" embed-file="MSGothic.ttc">
<font-triplet name="MS Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>
Questions I have:
1) The .fo file created at runtime has the Japanese content as つのコメントをテスト isntead of Japanese characters. Is this fine? Enclosed is the sample "Template_user10_.fo" file that is getting generated.
2) Enclosed are userconfig.xml and font metric files for MS Gothic and ARIALUNI. Check if these are fine.
3) Guide/Suggest what all we have to in order to properly write Asian languages/Japanese/Chinese to PDF's using Apache FOP. The version of FOP used in our application is 0.20.5, but i have used 0.95 version to generate the metrics file, will it create a problem? Can you please guide the appropriate versions to be used during the whole process.
Regards,
Srinivas
Re: Problem while trying to generate Multilingual PDF
Posted by Venkat Reddy <va...@googlemail.com>.
You should use URL for configured TTF (ARIALUNI.TTF) file, like
'file:///C:/windows/fonts/ARIALUNI.TTF'...
I am able to generate PDF document with japanese fonts using FOP Trunk
latest version, it should also work with FOP 0.95 with the metrics-url
attribute.
Venkat.
Srinivas Adusumalli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am facing the routine problem with generating multilingual pdf using
> Apache FOP
>
> *Requirement: *We should be able to generate PDF in Asian/multiple
> languages(Japanese, Chinese etcc.,) using Apache FOP
>
> *Current Set up: *Current system is using Apache FOP to generate PDF
> in english at the runtime. The .fo file (containing information about
> the blocks and data to be written to PDF) and userconfig
> file(containing information about the fonts) content is constructed at
> the run time based on the data available in the Database.
>
> *Solution Tried so far: *After analyzing i found that we need to
> embedd fonts related to japanese or chinese etcc specifically in to
> the PDF, following are the steps I followed to do the same.
>
> 1) Downloaded latest fop.jar (fop-0.95-bin.zip
> <javascript:void('http://mirrors.ecvps.com/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/fop-0.95-bin.zip');>
> ) from http://mirrors.ecvps.com/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/
> <javascript:void('http://mirrors.ecvps.com/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/');>
> 2) Created font metric files for ARIALUNI and MS Gothic fonts as
> specified at http://www.zvon.org/HowTo/Output/cid-fonts.pdf
> <javascript:void('http://www.zvon.org/HowTo/Output/cid-fonts.pdf');>
> 3) Ensured that the userconfig.xml has the following font entries
>
> <font metrics-file="ARIALUNI.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="ARIALUNI.TTF">
> <font-triplet name="Arial Unicode MS" style="normal"
> weight="normal" />
> </font>
>
>
> <font metrics-file="msgothic.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="msgothic.ttc">
> <font-triplet name="MS-Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
>
> 4) Ensured that .fo file generated uses the above specified font for
> the certain blocks which contains the Japanese text.
>
> Even after performing the above steps, I see the content being
> displayed as
>
> つのコメントをテスト
>
> or as ?????????????????????
>
> instead of displaying it in Japanese text.
>
> *NOTE: *
>
> 1)* *The japanese text that needs to be displayed is picked from the
> database, and in the database we see the information as
> つのコメントをテスト
> when we try to view it using TOAD. I am fetching the same information
> and displaying it in one of the text field in the page where in it is
> displaying appropriately as Japanese text (This is because i am
> setting the charset/pageEncoding to UTF-8).
>
> 2) There was no *"MS Gothic.ttf"* in C:\WINDOWS\fonts dir so i have
> used *"MS Gothic.ttc" *to generate the font metric file for the same
> initially and later i downloaded MSGothic.ttf from internet and tries
> the same , and in the userconfig.xml I tried to specify both (one at a
> time) for *embed-file* property
>
> *i tried the following entry once *
> **
> <font metrics-file="MSGothic.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="MSGothic.*ttf*">
> <font-triplet name="MS Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
>
> *and then*
> **
> <font metrics-file="MSGothic.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="MSGothic.*ttc*">
> <font-triplet name="MS Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
> **
> **
> *Questions I have:*
>
> 1) The .fo file created at runtime has the Japanese content as
> つのコメントをテスト
> isntead of Japanese characters. Is this fine? Enclosed is the sample
> *"Template_user10_.fo" *file that is getting generated.
>
> 2) Enclosed are userconfig.xml and font metric files for MS Gothic and
> ARIALUNI. Check if these are fine.
>
> 3) Guide/Suggest what all we have to in order to properly write Asian
> languages/Japanese/Chinese to PDF's using Apache FOP. The version of
> FOP used in our application is 0.20.5, but i have used 0.95 version to
> generate the metrics file, will it create a problem? Can you please
> guide the appropriate versions to be used during the whole process.
>
> Regards,
> Srinivas
>
>
Re: Problem while trying to generate Multilingual PDF
Posted by Glenn Adams <gl...@skynav.com>.
I am working on adding general support for complex scripts, such as Arabic,
Indic, etc. See the following comments on bug 32789:
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32789#c17
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32789#c19
It requires fairly extensive enhancements to the font and text layout
mechanisms.
Regards,
Glenn
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Pascal Sancho <pa...@takoma.fr>wrote:
> Hi,
> For FOP usage related questions, please ask to FOP-users list, witch is
> more appropriate.
> That said, you are facing to 2 separate topics:
> 1/ XML to XST-FO transformation stage: produced XML contains XML entities
> rather than characters, witch gives a hard to read file for a human being.
> This question is quite out of topic for FOP lists, you should ask to XSLT
> list (see [1]), but depends also on how the XSLT engine is invoked for
> output.
>
> 2/ PDF rendering: font configuration
> - there are many free fonts that can do the job (see [2])
> - I don't remember if FOP 0.2x can handle TTC fonts like MSGothic or
> MSMincho, you should check that;
> - note also that font subsystem is widely improved in FOP TRUNK (see [3]),
> where you can set multiple font families (very useful when mixing different
> scripts like Latin + Japanese)
> - another note: MS Arial Unicode only carry the regular shape, you cannot
> have italic or bold variations with FOP;
> - Finally, you should upgrade FOP to a recent release, FOP 0.2x is /very/
> old and is not supported anymore.
> However, you can use metrics generated with a recent FOP release with
> the old FOP 0.2x, there are some bugfixes on that part.
>
> [1] http://mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/
> [2] http://www.wazu.jp/index.html
> [3]
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html#Changes+to+the+Font+Subsystem
>
> Pascal
>
> Le 17/05/2010 06:50, Srinivas Adusumalli a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> I am facing the routine problem with generating multilingual pdf using
> Apache FOP
>
> *Requirement: *We should be able to generate PDF in Asian/multiple
> languages(Japanese, Chinese etcc.,) using Apache FOP
>
> *Current Set up: *Current system is using Apache FOP to generate PDF in
> english at the runtime. The .fo file (containing information about the
> blocks and data to be written to PDF) and userconfig file(containing
> information about the fonts) content is constructed at the run time based on
> the data available in the Database.
>
> *Solution Tried so far: *After analyzing i found that we need to embedd
> fonts related to japanese or chinese etcc specifically in to the PDF,
> following are the steps I followed to do the same.
>
> 1) Downloaded latest fop.jar (fop-0.95-bin.zip ) from
> http://mirrors.ecvps.com/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/
> 2) Created font metric files for ARIALUNI and MS Gothic fonts as specified
> at http://www.zvon.org/HowTo/Output/cid-fonts.pdf
> 3) Ensured that the userconfig.xml has the following font entries
>
> <font metrics-file="ARIALUNI.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="ARIALUNI.TTF">
> <font-triplet name="Arial Unicode MS" style="normal"
> weight="normal" />
> </font>
>
>
> <font metrics-file="msgothic.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="msgothic.ttc">
> <font-triplet name="MS-Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
>
> 4) Ensured that .fo file generated uses the above specified font for the
> certain blocks which contains the Japanese text.
>
> Even after performing the above steps, I see the content being displayed as
>
>
>
> つのコメントをテスト
>
> or as ?????????????????????
>
> instead of displaying it in Japanese text.
>
> *NOTE: *
>
> 1)* *The japanese text that needs to be displayed is picked from the
> database, and in the database we see the information as
> つのコメントをテスト
> when we try to view it using TOAD. I am fetching the same information and
> displaying it in one of the text field in the page where in it is displaying
> appropriately as Japanese text (This is because i am setting the
> charset/pageEncoding to UTF-8).
>
> 2) There was no *"MS Gothic.ttf"* in C:\WINDOWS\fonts dir so i have used
> *"MS Gothic.ttc" *to generate the font metric file for the same initially
> and later i downloaded MSGothic.ttf from internet and tries the same , and
> in the userconfig.xml I tried to specify both (one at a time) for *
> embed-file* property
>
> *i tried the following entry once *
> **
> <font metrics-file="MSGothic.xml" kerning="yes" embed-file="MSGothic.*
> ttf*">
> <font-triplet name="MS Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
>
> *and then*
> **
> <font metrics-file="MSGothic.xml" kerning="yes" embed-file="MSGothic.*
> ttc*">
> <font-triplet name="MS Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
> **
> **
> *Questions I have:*
>
> 1) The .fo file created at runtime has the Japanese content as
> つのコメントをテスト
> isntead of Japanese characters. Is this fine? Enclosed is the sample *"Template_user10_.fo"
> *file that is getting generated.
>
> 2) Enclosed are userconfig.xml and font metric files for MS Gothic and
> ARIALUNI. Check if these are fine.
>
> 3) Guide/Suggest what all we have to in order to properly write Asian
> languages/Japanese/Chinese to PDF's using Apache FOP. The version of FOP
> used in our application is 0.20.5, but i have used 0.95 version to generate
> the metrics file, will it create a problem? Can you please guide the
> appropriate versions to be used during the whole process.
>
> Regards,
> Srinivas
>
>
>
>
>
Re: Problem while trying to generate Multilingual PDF
Posted by Pascal Sancho <pa...@takoma.fr>.
Hi,
For FOP usage related questions, please ask to FOP-users list, witch is
more appropriate.
That said, you are facing to 2 separate topics:
1/ XML to XST-FO transformation stage: produced XML contains XML
entities rather than characters, witch gives a hard to read file for a
human being.
This question is quite out of topic for FOP lists, you should ask to
XSLT list (see [1]), but depends also on how the XSLT engine is invoked
for output.
2/ PDF rendering: font configuration
- there are many free fonts that can do the job (see [2])
- I don't remember if FOP 0.2x can handle TTC fonts like MSGothic or
MSMincho, you should check that;
- note also that font subsystem is widely improved in FOP TRUNK (see
[3]), where you can set multiple font families (very useful when mixing
different scripts like Latin + Japanese)
- another note: MS Arial Unicode only carry the regular shape, you
cannot have italic or bold variations with FOP;
- Finally, you should upgrade FOP to a recent release, FOP 0.2x is
/very/ old and is not supported anymore.
However, you can use metrics generated with a recent FOP release
with the old FOP 0.2x, there are some bugfixes on that part.
[1] http://mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/
[2] http://www.wazu.jp/index.html
[3]
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html#Changes+to+the+Font+Subsystem
Pascal
Le 17/05/2010 06:50, Srinivas Adusumalli a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I am facing the routine problem with generating multilingual pdf using
> Apache FOP
>
> *Requirement: *We should be able to generate PDF in Asian/multiple
> languages(Japanese, Chinese etcc.,) using Apache FOP
>
> *Current Set up: *Current system is using Apache FOP to generate PDF
> in english at the runtime. The .fo file (containing information about
> the blocks and data to be written to PDF) and userconfig
> file(containing information about the fonts) content is constructed at
> the run time based on the data available in the Database.
>
> *Solution Tried so far: *After analyzing i found that we need to
> embedd fonts related to japanese or chinese etcc specifically in to
> the PDF, following are the steps I followed to do the same.
>
> 1) Downloaded latest fop.jar (fop-0.95-bin.zip
> <javascript:void('http://mirrors.ecvps.com/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/fop-0.95-bin.zip');>
> ) from http://mirrors.ecvps.com/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/
> <javascript:void('http://mirrors.ecvps.com/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/');>
> 2) Created font metric files for ARIALUNI and MS Gothic fonts as
> specified at http://www.zvon.org/HowTo/Output/cid-fonts.pdf
> <javascript:void('http://www.zvon.org/HowTo/Output/cid-fonts.pdf');>
> 3) Ensured that the userconfig.xml has the following font entries
>
> <font metrics-file="ARIALUNI.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="ARIALUNI.TTF">
> <font-triplet name="Arial Unicode MS" style="normal"
> weight="normal" />
> </font>
>
>
> <font metrics-file="msgothic.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="msgothic.ttc">
> <font-triplet name="MS-Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
>
> 4) Ensured that .fo file generated uses the above specified font for
> the certain blocks which contains the Japanese text.
>
> Even after performing the above steps, I see the content being
> displayed as
>
> つのコメントをテスト
>
> or as ?????????????????????
>
> instead of displaying it in Japanese text.
>
> *NOTE: *
>
> 1)* *The japanese text that needs to be displayed is picked from the
> database, and in the database we see the information as
> つのコメントをテスト
> when we try to view it using TOAD. I am fetching the same information
> and displaying it in one of the text field in the page where in it is
> displaying appropriately as Japanese text (This is because i am
> setting the charset/pageEncoding to UTF-8).
>
> 2) There was no *"MS Gothic.ttf"* in C:\WINDOWS\fonts dir so i have
> used *"MS Gothic.ttc" *to generate the font metric file for the same
> initially and later i downloaded MSGothic.ttf from internet and tries
> the same , and in the userconfig.xml I tried to specify both (one at a
> time) for *embed-file* property
>
> *i tried the following entry once *
> **
> <font metrics-file="MSGothic.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="MSGothic.*ttf*">
> <font-triplet name="MS Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
>
> *and then*
> **
> <font metrics-file="MSGothic.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="MSGothic.*ttc*">
> <font-triplet name="MS Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
> **
> **
> *Questions I have:*
>
> 1) The .fo file created at runtime has the Japanese content as
> つのコメントをテスト
> isntead of Japanese characters. Is this fine? Enclosed is the sample
> *"Template_user10_.fo" *file that is getting generated.
>
> 2) Enclosed are userconfig.xml and font metric files for MS Gothic and
> ARIALUNI. Check if these are fine.
>
> 3) Guide/Suggest what all we have to in order to properly write Asian
> languages/Japanese/Chinese to PDF's using Apache FOP. The version of
> FOP used in our application is 0.20.5, but i have used 0.95 version to
> generate the metrics file, will it create a problem? Can you please
> guide the appropriate versions to be used during the whole process.
>
> Regards,
> Srinivas
>
>
Re: Problem while trying to generate Multilingual PDF
Posted by Pascal Sancho <pa...@takoma.fr>.
Hi,
For FOP usage related questions, please ask to FOP-users list, witch is
more appropriate.
That said, you are facing to 2 separate topics:
1/ XML to XST-FO transformation stage: produced XML contains XML
entities rather than characters, witch gives a hard to read file for a
human being.
This question is quite out of topic for FOP lists, you should ask to
XSLT list (see [1]), but depends also on how the XSLT engine is invoked
for output.
2/ PDF rendering: font configuration
- there are many free fonts that can do the job (see [2])
- I don't remember if FOP 0.2x can handle TTC fonts like MSGothic or
MSMincho, you should check that;
- note also that font subsystem is widely improved in FOP TRUNK (see
[3]), where you can set multiple font families (very useful when mixing
different scripts like Latin + Japanese)
- another note: MS Arial Unicode only carry the regular shape, you
cannot have italic or bold variations with FOP;
- Finally, you should upgrade FOP to a recent release, FOP 0.2x is
/very/ old and is not supported anymore.
However, you can use metrics generated with a recent FOP release
with the old FOP 0.2x, there are some bugfixes on that part.
[1] http://mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/
[2] http://www.wazu.jp/index.html
[3]
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html#Changes+to+the+Font+Subsystem
Pascal
Le 17/05/2010 06:50, Srinivas Adusumalli a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I am facing the routine problem with generating multilingual pdf using
> Apache FOP
>
> *Requirement: *We should be able to generate PDF in Asian/multiple
> languages(Japanese, Chinese etcc.,) using Apache FOP
>
> *Current Set up: *Current system is using Apache FOP to generate PDF
> in english at the runtime. The .fo file (containing information about
> the blocks and data to be written to PDF) and userconfig
> file(containing information about the fonts) content is constructed at
> the run time based on the data available in the Database.
>
> *Solution Tried so far: *After analyzing i found that we need to
> embedd fonts related to japanese or chinese etcc specifically in to
> the PDF, following are the steps I followed to do the same.
>
> 1) Downloaded latest fop.jar (fop-0.95-bin.zip
> <javascript:void('http://mirrors.ecvps.com/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/fop-0.95-bin.zip');>
> ) from http://mirrors.ecvps.com/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/
> <javascript:void('http://mirrors.ecvps.com/apache/xmlgraphics/fop/binaries/');>
> 2) Created font metric files for ARIALUNI and MS Gothic fonts as
> specified at http://www.zvon.org/HowTo/Output/cid-fonts.pdf
> <javascript:void('http://www.zvon.org/HowTo/Output/cid-fonts.pdf');>
> 3) Ensured that the userconfig.xml has the following font entries
>
> <font metrics-file="ARIALUNI.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="ARIALUNI.TTF">
> <font-triplet name="Arial Unicode MS" style="normal"
> weight="normal" />
> </font>
>
>
> <font metrics-file="msgothic.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="msgothic.ttc">
> <font-triplet name="MS-Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
>
> 4) Ensured that .fo file generated uses the above specified font for
> the certain blocks which contains the Japanese text.
>
> Even after performing the above steps, I see the content being
> displayed as
>
> つのコメントをテスト
>
> or as ?????????????????????
>
> instead of displaying it in Japanese text.
>
> *NOTE: *
>
> 1)* *The japanese text that needs to be displayed is picked from the
> database, and in the database we see the information as
> つのコメントをテスト
> when we try to view it using TOAD. I am fetching the same information
> and displaying it in one of the text field in the page where in it is
> displaying appropriately as Japanese text (This is because i am
> setting the charset/pageEncoding to UTF-8).
>
> 2) There was no *"MS Gothic.ttf"* in C:\WINDOWS\fonts dir so i have
> used *"MS Gothic.ttc" *to generate the font metric file for the same
> initially and later i downloaded MSGothic.ttf from internet and tries
> the same , and in the userconfig.xml I tried to specify both (one at a
> time) for *embed-file* property
>
> *i tried the following entry once *
> **
> <font metrics-file="MSGothic.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="MSGothic.*ttf*">
> <font-triplet name="MS Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
>
> *and then*
> **
> <font metrics-file="MSGothic.xml" kerning="yes"
> embed-file="MSGothic.*ttc*">
> <font-triplet name="MS Gothic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
> </font>
> **
> **
> *Questions I have:*
>
> 1) The .fo file created at runtime has the Japanese content as
> つのコメントをテスト
> isntead of Japanese characters. Is this fine? Enclosed is the sample
> *"Template_user10_.fo" *file that is getting generated.
>
> 2) Enclosed are userconfig.xml and font metric files for MS Gothic and
> ARIALUNI. Check if these are fine.
>
> 3) Guide/Suggest what all we have to in order to properly write Asian
> languages/Japanese/Chinese to PDF's using Apache FOP. The version of
> FOP used in our application is 0.20.5, but i have used 0.95 version to
> generate the metrics file, will it create a problem? Can you please
> guide the appropriate versions to be used during the whole process.
>
> Regards,
> Srinivas
>
>