[docbook-apps] Fonts and FOP

[Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at yahoo dot com>]

Hi,

I am trying to add a font in FOP (BitStream Vera Sans,
which comes with Fedora) so that I am use it in my
titles. I have successfully generated the font matrix
files (some variants like normal, bold, bold-italic
and italic version)  using "TTFReader". My font
configuration file is this:

###############################################

<configuration>
	<fonts>
		<fonts
metrics-file="/home/deepak/documents/docbooks/thesis/xmlfonts/vera-sans.xml"
kerning="yes"
embed-file="/home/deepak/documents/docbooks/thesis/xmlfonts/Vera.ttf">
		  <font-triplet name="Vera" style="normal"
weight="normal"/>	
		
		<fonts
metrics-file="/home/deepak/documents/docbooks/thesis/xmlfonts/vera-sans-bold.xml"
kerning="yes"
embed-file="/home/deepak/documents/docbooks/thesis/xmlfonts/VeraBd.ttf">

		  <font-triplet name="Vera" style="normal"
weight="bold"/>	
	
		<fonts
metrics-file="/home/deepak/documents/docbooks/thesis/xmlfonts/vera-sans-bold-italic.xml"
kerning="yes"
embed-file="/home/deepak/documents/docbooks/thesis/xmlfonts/VeraBI.ttf">

		  <font-triplet name="Vera" style="italic"
weight="bold"/>	
	
		<fonts
metrics-file="/home/deepak/documents/docbooks/thesis/xmlfonts/vera-sans-italic.xml"
kerning="yes"
embed-file="/home/deepak/documents/docbooks/thesis/xmlfonts/VeraIT.ttf">

		  <font-triplet name="Vera" style="italic"
weight="normal"/>	
	</fonts>
</configuration>

#################################################

Now, trying of generate the PDF with -c option gives
me following error:

###################################
$ fop.sh -c
/home/deepak/documents/docbooks/thesis/xmlfonts/fop_new_font_add_config.xml
\
-fo saxbook.fo \
-pdf saxbook.pdf

$ Making portrait pages on USletter paper (8.5inx11in)
[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as
SAX2 Parser
[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as
SAX2 Parser
Exception in thread "main"
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.apache.fop.configuration.ConfigurationParser.startElement(ConfigurationParser.java:187)
        at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser.emptyElement(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.fop.configuration.ConfigurationReader.start(ConfigurationReader.java:114)
        at
org.apache.fop.apps.Options.loadUserconfiguration(Options.java:220)
        at
org.apache.fop.apps.Options.loadUserconfiguration(Options.java:204)
        at
org.apache.fop.apps.Options.setCommandLineOptions(Options.java:116)
        at
org.apache.fop.apps.CommandLineStarter.<init>(CommandLineStarter.java:75)
        at
org.apache.fop.apps.CommandLineOptions.getStarter(CommandLineOptions.java:522)
        at org.apache.fop.apps.Fop.main(Fop.java:61)
##############################

Any suggestions?

By the way I am using customization layer but haven't
modified yet to change the title fonts.

Thanks in advance.

Deepak K. Shrestha

 


		
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