I cannot change my font family using Apache FOP

Question

I use fop Quick Guide to print a simple PDF file from a simple XML file, and it works great. but when I change <name>Frank</name> to <name>امیررضا</name> (change the name to a different encoding), I get #### in my printed PDF. I browse over the Internet and have not found an acceptable solution. I use a lot of configuration files, here are some of my configuration files:

I use this command to create pdf:

 fop -c cfg.xml -xml name.xml -xsl name2fo.xsl -pdf name.pdf 

When I use this command, I get the warning below:

 WARNING: xHeight value could not be determined. The font may not work as Sep 15, 2011 9:15:37 AM org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener proce WARNING: Glyph "╙" (0x633, afii57427) not available in font "Helvetica". Sep 15, 2011 9:15:37 AM org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener proce WARNING: Glyph "╘" (0x634, afii57428) not available in font "Helvetica". 

1- name.xml contains:

 <name>امیررضا</name> 

2-name2fo.xsl contains:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <fo:root> <fo:layout-master-set> <fo:simple-page-master master-name="A4-portrait" page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21.0cm" margin="2cm"> <fo:region-body/> </fo:simple-page-master> </fo:layout-master-set> <fo:page-sequence master-reference="A4-portrait"> <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> <fo:block> Hello, <xsl:value-of select="name"/>! </fo:block> </fo:flow> </fo:page-sequence> </fo:root> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> 

3- try a lot of different configuration files (cfg.xml).

3.1

 <fop version="1.0"> <renderers> <renderer mime="application/pdf"> <fonts> <substitutions> <substitution> <from font-family="Helvetica" /> <to font-family="SansSerif"/> </substitution> </substitutions> <referenced-fonts> <match font-family=".*"/> </referenced-fonts> <!-- register all the fonts found in a directory and all of its sub directories (use with care) --> <directory recursive="true">G:\....\fop\fop-1.0\Core14_AFMs</directory> <!-- automatically detect operating system installed fonts --> <auto-detect/> <font embed-url="C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\times.ttf"> <font-triplet name="Times New Roman" style="normal" weight="normal"/> </font> </fonts> </renderer> </renderers> </fop> 

3.2

 <fop version="1.0"> <renderers> <renderer mime="application/pdf"> <fonts> <substitutions> <substitution> <from font-family="Helvetica" /> <to font-family="SansSerif"/> </substitution> </substitutions> <referenced-fonts> <match font-family=".*"/> </referenced-fonts> <!-- automatically detect operating system installed fonts --> <auto-detect/> </fonts> </renderer> </renderers> </fop> 

3.3: ......

Result of the result:

Hello, #######!

Can someone help me fix this?

Answer 1

Apache FOP 1.1 has added support for languages ​​written in scripts from right to left, such as Arabic and Hebrew, and full support for bidi. Based on the date of this question, an earlier version of Apache FOP was used. See http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/complexscripts.html for more information.

Answer 2

I never used Apache FOP, but found this article that allows you to create a multilingual PDF file.

• Create multiple language PDF files using Apache FOP

Answer 3

I would recommend that you use HelveticaWorld, which also contains Arabic characters, or if you create a FOP input dynamically, you can use Velocity or Freemarker variables to store the font name.

Answer 4

I solve the problem by adding a font family to the XSL code:

name2fo.xsl after the changes contains:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <fo:root> <fo:layout-master-set> <fo:simple-page-master master-name="A4-portrait" page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21.0cm" margin="2cm"> <fo:region-body/> </fo:simple-page-master> </fo:layout-master-set> <fo:page-sequence master-reference="A4-portrait"> <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> <fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="Tahoma"> Hello, <xsl:value-of select="name"/>! </fo:block> </fo:flow> </fo:page-sequence> </fo:root> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> 

But I still have a problem, which is my Farsi symbol printed in reverse order. I mean, if I want to print "Hello", it was printed "oellH" (you can imagine that Hello is written in Persian), and there is also a second problem that was printed by the symbol.