[FOP-2035] [PATCH] National characters in PDF base fonts

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.0
• Component/s: renderer/pdf
• Environment: Operating System: Windows Vista; Platform: PC
• External issue ID: 52992
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tomasz Judycki
• Created: 27/Mar/12 17:44
• Updated: 16/Dec/12 08:22

Description

I've modified FOP to support national characters in base 14 fonts (namely in Helvetica), using /BaseEncoding /WinAnsiEncoding /Differences [...] mechanism. It's rather cracking than improvement - because of my very limited time I was not able to code it better as I don't know FOP well enough. I hope that FOP developers will implement that solution making it more universal.

Find attached modifications. I've used proper metric (src/codegen/fonts/Helvetica*.xml) provided by Bogusław Fries (he accept this contribution) and altered some source files from src/java/org/apache/fop/pdf, all modifications are surrounded by:
// <tjudycki>
// </tjudycki>
The last modified file is build.xml - parameter encoding is set to CEEncoding instead of WinAnsiEncoding.

The solution is described here http://tv.com.pl/stepbystep/fop_pdf/

Regards,

Tomasz Judycki