FOP 0.17 does not work correctly with WebSphere 3.5, platform OS/390, JDK 1.3 The generated PDF-file is not a correct binary pdf-type. I think there are encoding-problems within the generation-process of the PDF.
*** Bug 2880 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Does anybody still concern about this bug? Could somebody check for example RenderX XEP under OS/390? It's not clear, is it FOP's bug or some more fundamental inconsistency.
Your're right. Please check bug database, there are some bugs relating to this problem. What you must do is to change all the "getBytes" methods in the PDF- related java source code. Just substitute: .... getBytes(); with .... getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
This has already been fixed in 020.4 (Needs to be done in trunk though, I'll do it after the release)
batch transition pre-FOP1.0 resolved+fixed bugs to closed+fixed