FOP substitutes a pound sign ('#') for right arrows in PDFs - entity '→' and code point '→'. xmllint OK. xsltproc OK.
Have you specified a font that has a glyph for →? What is input FO file? What is output PDF file? What is console output from running FOP? Please help us out by doing your homework first and providing full in/out files, etc.
> Have you specified a font that has a glyph for →? The character entities are part of DocBook, and the fonts used a standard (part of Base-14). > What is input FO file? Attached. > What is output PDF file? Attached. > What is console output from running FOP? See below. Note that an empty book with no content produces the font warning. arrow-book$ ./make-book.sh Note: namesp. add : added namespace before processing The Arrow Book Making portrait pages on USletter paper (8.5inx11in) Nov 6, 2011 3:50:15 PM org.apache.fop.fonts.FontInfo notifyFontReplacement WARNING: Font 'Symbol,normal,700' not found. Substituting with 'Symbol,normal,400'. Nov 6, 2011 3:50:15 PM org.apache.fop.fonts.FontInfo notifyFontReplacement WARNING: Font 'ZapfDingbats,normal,700' not found. Substituting with 'ZapfDingbats,normal,400'. Nov 6, 2011 3:50:15 PM org.apache.fop.hyphenation.Hyphenator getHyphenationTree SEVERE: Couldn't find hyphenation pattern en arrow-book$
Created attachment 27903 [details] Extra information requested in Comment 2
(In reply to comment #1) > Have you specified a font that has a glyph for →? Forgot to mention.... FOP 0.95 does not appear to have an option for additional fonts. $ fop -V USAGE Fop [options] [-fo|-xml] infile [-xsl file] [-awt|-pdf|-mif|-rtf|-tiff|-png|-pcl|-ps|-txt|-at [mime]|-print] <outfile> [OPTIONS] -d debug mode -x dump configuration settings -q quiet mode -c cfg.xml use additional configuration file cfg.xml -l lang the language to use for user information -r relaxed/less strict validation (where available) -dpi xxx target resolution in dots per inch (dpi) where xxx is a number -s for area tree XML, down to block areas only -v to show FOP version being used -o [password] PDF file will be encrypted with option owner password -u [password] PDF file will be encrypted with option user password -noprint PDF file will be encrypted without printing permission -nocopy PDF file will be encrypted without copy content permission -noedit PDF file will be encrypted without edit content permission -noannotations PDF file will be encrypted without edit annotation permission -pdfprofile prof PDF file will be generated with the specified profile (Examples for prof: PDF/A-1b or PDF/X-3:2003) [INPUT] infile xsl:fo input file (the same as the next) -fo infile xsl:fo input file -xml infile xml input file, must be used together with -xsl -atin infile area tree input file -imagein infile image input file -xsl stylesheet xslt stylesheet -param name value <value> to use for parameter <name> in xslt stylesheet (repeat '-param name value' for each parameter) [OUTPUT] outfile input will be rendered as PDF into outfile -pdf outfile input will be rendered as PDF (outfile req'd) -pdfa1b outfile input will be rendered as PDF/A-1b compliant PDF (outfile req'd, same as "-pdf outfile -pdfprofile PDF/A-1b") -awt input will be displayed on screen -rtf outfile input will be rendered as RTF (outfile req'd) -pcl outfile input will be rendered as PCL (outfile req'd) -ps outfile input will be rendered as PostScript (outfile req'd) -afp outfile input will be rendered as AFP (outfile req'd) -tiff outfile input will be rendered as TIFF (outfile req'd) -png outfile input will be rendered as PNG (outfile req'd) -txt outfile input will be rendered as plain text (outfile req'd) -at [mime] out representation of area tree as XML (outfile req'd) specify optional mime output to allow AT to be converted to final format later -print input file will be rendered and sent to the printer see options with "-print help" -out mime outfile input will be rendered using the given MIME type (outfile req'd) Example: "-out application/pdf D:\out.pdf" (Tip: "-out list" prints the list of supported MIME types) -mif outfile input will be rendered as MIF (FrameMaker) (outfile req'd) Experimental feature - requires additional fop-sandbox.jar. -svg outfile input will be rendered as an SVG slides file (outfile req'd) Experimental feature - requires additional fop-sandbox.jar. -foout outfile input will only be XSL transformed. The intermediate XSL-FO file is saved and no rendering is performed. (Only available if you use -xml and -xsl parameters) [Examples] Fop foo.fo foo.pdf Fop -fo foo.fo -pdf foo.pdf (does the same as the previous line) Fop -xml foo.xml -xsl foo.xsl -pdf foo.pdf Fop -xml foo.xml -xsl foo.xsl -foout foo.fo Fop foo.fo -mif foo.mif Fop foo.fo -rtf foo.rtf Fop foo.fo -print or Fop -print foo.fo Fop foo.fo -awt Nov 6, 2011 5:36:10 PM org.apache.fop.cli.Main startFOP SEVERE: Exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error creating InputHandler object. ...
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Have you specified a font that has a glyph for →? > Forgot to mention.... > > FOP 0.95 does not appear to have an option for additional fonts. Please read http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/fonts.html. Also, I suggest you upgrade to FOP 1.0 before you go further with your efforts.
the size of the attached book.fo file is too large to undertake a fix; please whittle it down to a minimal FO file that demonstrates the problem in minimal form without redundant context
resetting P2 open bugs to P3 pending further review
(In reply to comment #6) > the size of the attached book.fo file is too large to undertake a fix; please > whittle it down to a minimal FO file that demonstrates the problem in minimal > form without redundant context Jeffrey, I am still awaiting your input as requested above. if I see no further input by April 30, I will close this bug due to lack of requested information. Regards, Glenn P.S. Also supply the output PDF file and any console output when you run your test content.