Register the fonts with Apache FOP

About this task

The default configuration of Adobe FOP (and the fonts that it uses to build output PDFs) supports only the Latin1 character set, used by languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch. The default configuration does not support languages with non-Latin alphabets such as Russian (Cyrillic alphabet), Japanese, and Chinese. Thus, you must specifically configure the fop.xconf file to support the Russian, Japanese, and Chinese alphabets.

Procedure

Copy the following file into directory C:/fopconfig/:

C:/fop/conf/fop.xconf
Open fop.xconf for editing and find the following code in the <font> section.
```

<auto-detect/>
```

Remove the existing <auto-detect/> element and replace it with the following code.

<!-- Japanese -->
<font auto-detect="yes" kerning="yes" embed-url="file:///C:/windows/fonts/msmincho.ttc" sub-font="MS Mincho">
  <font-triplet name="Japanese" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
  <font-triplet name="Japanese" style="normal" weight="bold"/>
  <font-triplet name="Japanese" style="italic" weight="normal"/>
  <font-triplet name="Japanese" style="italic" weight="bold"/>
</font>
     
<!-- Chinese -->
<font auto-detect="yes" kerning="yes" embed-url="file:///C:/windows/fonts/simsun.ttc" sub-font="SimSun">
  <font-triplet name="Chinese" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
  <font-triplet name="Chinese" style="normal" weight="bold"/>
  <font-triplet name="Chinese" style="italic" weight="normal"/>
  <font-triplet name="Chinese" style="italic" weight="bold"/>
</font>
     
<!-- Russian -->
<font auto-detect="yes" kerning="yes" embed-url="file:///C:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf">
  <font-triplet name="Cyrillic" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>

<font auto-detect="yes" kerning="yes" embed-url="file:///C:/windows/fonts/arialbd.ttf">
  <font-triplet name="Cyrillic" style="normal" weight="bold"/>
</font>

<font auto-detect="yes" kerning="yes" embed-url="file:///C:/windows/fonts/ariali.ttf">
  <font-triplet name="Cyrillic" style="italic" weight="normal"/>
</font>

<font auto-detect="yes" kerning="yes" embed-url="file:///C:/windows/fonts/arialbi.ttf">
  <font-triplet name="Cyrillic" style="italic" weight="bold"/>
</font>

If you do not want to embed the font in the PDF document, do not include the embed-url attribute.

What to do next

The next step is Register FOP configuration and font family with PolicyCenter.