0.20.3 gives odd results with some fonts

[ronald heller <ro...@salience.nl>]

Hi there,

Today I update my FOp version from 0.20.3RC to 0.20.3 and I discovered that 
my document containing characters in fonts like symbol and ZapfDingbats, 
suddenly had lost almost every character.

Consider the following:

     <fo:block space-after="0pt">
             <fo:inline text-decoration="none" font-family="Times 
Roman">M</fo:inline>
             <fo:inline text-decoration="none" 
font-family="Symbol">M</fo:inline>
             <fo:inline text-decoration="none" 
font-family="ZapfDingbats">M</fo:inline>
      </fo:block>

With fop 0.20.3RC all characters were poperly shown. With this new version 
I get the unknown character symbol.
What's going on here?

Cheers

Ronald

Re: 0.20.3 gives odd results with some fonts

["J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>]

ronald heller wrote:
><fo:block space-after="0pt">
>    <fo:inline text-decoration="none" font-family="Times 
> Roman">M</fo:inline>
>     <fo:inline text-decoration="none" 
> font-family="Symbol">M</fo:inline>
>       <fo:inline text-decoration="none" 
> font-family="ZapfDingbats">M</fo:inline>
>   </fo:block>
> 
> With fop 0.20.3RC all characters were poperly shown. With this new 
> version I get the unknown character symbol.
> What's going on here?

You try to display the character "M" in the fonts "Symbol"
and "ZapfDingbats". Chances are that there is no glyph for
the character in the font, or that the character code is
misinterpreted for another code in a non-unicode font.
As already mentioned. 0.20.3rc had some bugs, which have been
fixed. Select a proper font for the characters you want to
display.

J.Pietschmann

Re: 0.20.3 gives odd results with some fonts

[Christian Geisert <ch...@isu-gmbh.de>]

Cyril Rognon schrieb:
> Hi Ronald,
> 
> I think this was an error in the former FOP version. If you use unicode 
> values of the needed character everything works perfectly with 0.20.3RC 
> or 0.20.3...

Yes, just have a look at docs/examples/fo/fonts.fo


Christian

Re: 0.20.3 gives odd results with some fonts

[Cyril Rognon <cr...@objectiva.fr>]

Hi Ronald,

I think this was an error in the former FOP version. If you use unicode 
values of the needed character everything works perfectly with 0.20.3RC or 
0.20.3...

Cyril

At 17:13 28/05/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>Today I update my FOp version from 0.20.3RC to 0.20.3 and I discovered 
>that my document containing characters in fonts like symbol and 
>ZapfDingbats, suddenly had lost almost every character.
>
>Consider the following:
>
>     <fo:block space-after="0pt">
>             <fo:inline text-decoration="none" font-family="Times 
> Roman">M</fo:inline>
>             <fo:inline text-decoration="none" 
> font-family="Symbol">M</fo:inline>
>             <fo:inline text-decoration="none" 
> font-family="ZapfDingbats">M</fo:inline>
>      </fo:block>
>
>With fop 0.20.3RC all characters were poperly shown. With this new version 
>I get the unknown character symbol.
>What's going on here?
>
>Cheers
>
>Ronald