cannot render greeks using TTF Embedding feature

#26669

I wonder if you can help me – I have been trying to get your ttf embedding feature to work all afternoon and am having no luck. We are looking into to PD4ML for a chemical website so greek symbols are essential.

the jsp page:

<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tlds/pd4ml.tld" prefix="pd4ml" %>

ß
Hello, World!

ß
b


I have put the fonts in a directory and generated the properties file:

#this is an autogenerated file. please remove manually any references to copyrighted fonts
#Mon Jan 30 16:47:43 GMT 2012
Arial=arial.ttf
Arial Bold=arialbd.ttf
Arial Bold Italic=arialbi.ttf
Arial Italic=ariali.ttf
Courier New=cour.ttf
Courier New Bold=courbd.ttf
Courier New Bold Italic=courbi.ttf
Courier New Italic=couri.ttf
Symbol=symbol.ttf
Times New Roman=times.ttf
Times New Roman Bold=timesbd.ttf
Times New Roman Bold Italic=timesbi.ttf
Times New Roman Italic=timesi.ttf

and referred to this. ( I am using windows so have not put this properties file directly into the windows/fonts directory as it will not accept this!) I have also put them in a jar , registered the library as shown above. I have tried rendering from the page. It seems to get assci chars, in the font, i.e. abcde…., ok but not any symbols.

?
Hello, World!
??????, ???!
?
b

What I need to do is get it to render from a java class

html.useTTF( “java:fonts2”, true );

response.setContentType(“application/pdf; charset=utf-8”);
response.setHeader(“Content-disposition”, “inline; filename=test4.pdf”);
if (!request.isSecure()) {
response.setHeader(“Pragma”, “no-cache”);
response.setHeader(“Expires”, “-10000”);
}

html.render(url, baos);

This still does not render any Greek symbols only ‘?’! Any help would be appreciated!

#28839

I have downloaded the pro demo version to do the proof of concept for this but when I do the debug I just get this:

version: PD4ML 380 (eval)
done in 297ms.

It does not look like it is even trying to load the fonts. Is this not the correct PDML jar? If not where can I download the correct one and what is it’s name?

Megan

#28840

TTF Embedding is a feature of PD4ML Pro.

You obviously tried PD4ML Std.

#28841

Yes I think you may not have the correct jar in your current pro evaluaion download.

I dropped down pd4ml.pro.trial.380 to evaluate it not the standard one, and used pd4ml_demo.jar and pd4ml_tl_demo.jar are the only jars in that package and I have installed both.

Can you tell me the name and where I can download and evalution on the pro version so I can test that it will handle the fonts for us?

Thanks

#28842

ah – a new one went up today
pd4ml.pro.trial.380fx2

and that seem to be working!

thanks

#28843

Glad it works now.

I suspected Std as in the debug output
version: PD4ML 380 (eval)
there was no “Pro” suffix.

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