How to run (user)config.xml to add Fonts in embedded FOP 020.5 with PDF

Question

Hi,
we are having problems with showing certain PDF characters, resulting in # (ÂăãÆæßČč¢ results in Â#ãÆæß##¢).
Within the (user)config.xml you can add Fonts, see code, but how to run it from the XSQLFOPSerializer ????.
We copied the Arial Window fonts to Linux.
I tried several things but nothing worked, see code:
* Tested with the FOP 0.20.3RC release from 19-Jan-2002
public class XSQLFOPSerializer implements XSQLDocumentSerializer {
private static final String PDFMIME = "application/pdf";
public void serialize(Document doc, XSQLPageRequest env) throws Throwable {
try {
// First make sure we can load the driver
Driver FOPDriver = new Driver();
Logger logger = new ConsoleLogger(ConsoleLogger.LEVEL_DEBUG); // ipv. INFO
MessageHandler.setScreenLogger(logger);
FOPDriver.setLogger(logger);
// Some of FOP's messages appear to still use MessageHandler.
// MessageHandler.setOutputMethod(MessageHandler.NONE);
// Then set the content type before getting the reader/
env.setContentType(PDFMIME);
+// Tried the following, but does not work !!!!+
+// String userConfig = "/u02/gba/tent/userconfig.xml";+
+// File userConfigFile;+
+// userConfigFile = new File(userConfig);+
+// Options options = new Options();+
+// options.loadUserconfiguration(userConfigFile);+
FOPDriver.setOutputStream(env.getOutputStream());
FOPDriver.setRenderer(FOPDriver.RENDER_PDF);
FOPDriver.render(doc);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace(System.err);
__userconfig.xml__
// <entry>
// <key>fontBaseDir</key>
// <value>/usr/share/fonts/ttf</value>
// </entry>
//<fonts>
// <font metrics-file="arial.xml" kerning="yes" embed-file="arial.ttf">
// <font-triplet name="Arial" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
// <font-triplet name="ArialMT" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
// </font>
// <font metrics-file="arialb.xml" kerning="yes" embed-file="arialb.ttf">
// <font-triplet name="Arial" style="normal" weight="bold"/>
// <font-triplet name="ArialMT" style="normal" weight="bold"/>
// </font>
// <font metrics-file="ariali.xml" kerning="yes" embed-file="ariali.ttf">
// <font-triplet name="Arial" style="italic" weight="normal"/>
// <font-triplet name="ArialMT" style="italic" weight="normal"/>
// </font>
// <font metrics-file="arialbi.xml" kerning="yes" embed-file="arialbi.ttf">
// <font-triplet name="Arial" style="italic" weight="bold"/>
// <font-triplet name="ArialMT" style="italic" weight="bold"/>
// </font></fonts>
//</configuration>
Keywords:
FOP 020.5
XML2HTML / PDF
XSQLFOP
Embedded in ADF (fop.jar)
Linux

Answer 1

User,
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John