Lotus Notes 8.5.3 troubles with ttf fonts

#26811

Hi,

we have a Lotus Domino application that produces PDF files with PD4ML Libraries (Java version).

The application uses TTF Font IDAutomationHI25M.ttf to print a Barcode.

We had this application perfectly running with a 7.0.x domino server. Now we had to upgrade the server to 8.5.3 and the barcode shows like in the attached file.

The XML produced by dxl.exportDxl(tmp) is:

<tablecell borderwidth='0px 0px 2px 2px'>
<pardef id='25' align='center' rightmargin='3.8229in' keepwithnext='true'
keeptogether='true'/>
<par def='25'><run><font size='36pt' name='IDAutomationHI25M' truetype='false'
familyid='70'/><span style="color: #008000">ÀU+!!$Ã</span></run><compositedata type='65402' prevtype='65413'
nexttype='65413' afterparcount='4'>
<span style="color: #BF4000">ev8iAAAABwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABiYXJjb2RlAA==</span>
</compositedata></par></tablecell>

where the string “ÀU+!!$Ô is the Interleaved 2 of 5 encoding of number 5210000003 (as required by the fonts) while
the char string “ev8iAAAABwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABiYXJjb2RlAA==” seems to be added by exportDxl function.

The second line (in the attached pdf) shows the same value (“ÀU+!!$Ô) print using a IDAutomation font which is NOT present in the jar file neither in the c:windowsfonts directory. The misteryous string still appears.

Does any of you have any idea?

thanks a lot
tommaso

#29202

UnDecoding Base64 the string:
ev8iAAAABwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABiYXJjb2RlAA==

gives:zÿ”����������������������barcode�

with the text “barcode” at the end (that comes from the final part of the string AABiYXJjb2RlAA==)

In fact that field is a BARCODE…

even though this doesn’t help me :-< -t-

#29203

The garbage looks like UTF-8 wrongly interpreted as Latin-1. Should be solvable with an XSL adjustment. Could you please publish a DXL sample, which causes such problem?

#29204

thanks for the quick answer

the code I use is:

Document tmp = db.createDocument();
RichTextItem rti = tmp.createRichTextItem("PD4MLBody");
doc.renderToRTItem(rti);
DxlExporter dxl = session.createDxlExporter();
dxl.setConvertNotesBitmapsToGIF(true);  => in this case il useless
dxl.setOutputDOCTYPE(false); => tried with (true) but is the same

String xml = dxl.exportDxl(tmp);

and the string “xml” contains

<tablecell borderwidth='0px 0px 2px 2px'>
<pardef id='25' align='center' rightmargin='3.8229in' keepwithnext='true'
keeptogether='true'/>
<par def='25'><run><font size='36pt' name='IDAutomationHI25M' truetype='false'
familyid='70'/>ÀU+!!$Ã</run>

<compositedata type='65402' prevtype='65413'
nexttype='65413' afterparcount='4'>
ev8iAAAABwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABiYXJjb2RlAA==
</compositedata>

</par></tablecell>

where the last part has something to do with the Base64 Encode of the Barcode.

I don’t know how to export a DXL in a different way … sorry

-t-

#29205

Could you please send the entire DXL and its resulting PDF to support pd4ml com?

I tried to convert the snippet you sent with our actual XSL and it printed only “ÀU+!!$Ô (well, we do not have the needed barcode font to test). Base64 portion has been suppressed by <xsl:template match="d:compositedata" /> directive.

#29206

here you are

I attach PDF, xls, xml, html.

We had PD4ML 3.6.0, now we’re performing the test with 3.8.1

You are very kind :->

tommaso spazzali

#29207

I converted the DXL with the actual XSL and as for me it seems to be correct (except a missing barcode font issue).

I have attached the conversion result and the XSL stylesheet (which can be also taken from the actual Dxl2Pdf package: https://pd4ml.com/command-line-dxl-to-pdf-converter.htm )

#29208

It’s true, it works

thanks really a lot!

tommaso

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