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From: Sjur Moshagen <sjurnm@mac.com>
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Subject: FOPNGSerializer and user-configurable fonts - fonts not found
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:02:52 +0300

Hello all,

The work I've done lately isn't completely successful, but I'm not  
able to find the source of the problem. Success story first:

It is now possible to specify the font family being used (hm, I have a  
feeling I have said this a couple of times...). This was tested by  
just switching around the generic families serif, sans-serif and  
monospace, and it works fine.

Conclusion: the changes I made are working as intended.

BUT: now I wanted to use this to specify the correct font family for a  
site of ours, but the fonts are not found. Instead I get error  
messages like:

WARN - Font 'Lucida Grande,normal,700' not found. Substituting with  
'any,normal,700'.
WARN - Font 'Junicode,italic,400' not found. Substituting with  
'any,italic,400'.
WARN - Font 'Junicode,normal,400' not found. Substituting with  
'any,normal,400'.

I admit that this is really a FOP question, and not really a Forrest  
issue. Then on the other hand, FOP 0.94 (which we are using) and the  
font-finding features have been around for some time now, and should  
work, or problems should be known, and workarounds should be available  
in e-mail list archives, wikis, FAQs etc. I have found nothing, which  
makes me wonder whether there is a problem in the interaction between  
Forrest and FOP.

The font configuration file is correctly found (otherwise the error  
message would have been completely different), and I have updated the  
configuration file to what is described on the FOP pages[1] (I  
actually copied the file from the FOP svn repository, as described on  
[2], the structure of the file has changed quite a bit since our  
previous FOP version), still no luck.

I have tried with system-installed fonst (on MacOS X), and fonts  
available only to Forrest/FOP (in the $PROJECT_HOME/src/documentation/ 
resources/fonts/ folder). Nothing works.

If I specify one of the base-14 fonts (Times, Helvetica, Courier,  
symbols and dingbats), I get no error messages, but characters outside  
ANSI 1252 are displayed as #, even though the fonts on my system  
actually do contain the requested glyphs.

Somehow this seems to be related to the FOP 0.94 upgrade a while ago,  
as this used to work for me and my colleagues.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Sjur

[1] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.94/fonts.html
[2] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.94/configuration.html