unix : fonts deployment ?

#26516

Hi,
I work with a web-application that creates PDF’s from HTML with the library “PD4ML pro”. It works like a charm, it’s really much easier than coding on iText, thank you guys!

I want to integrate chinese and other languages strange characters, but I’ve problems with .ttf files in prod.

I’ve created use a “fonts.jar” file that is in my WEB-INF/lib folder.
That font.jar file contains:
– all my .ttf files
– “fonts.properties” file that contains :

#this is an autogenerated file. please remove manually any references to copyrighted fonts
#Sun Feb 06 11:45:00 CET 2011
=Helvetica.ttf
Arial=arial.ttf
Arial Black=ariblk.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
Helvetica Cyrillic Bold=Helvetica Bold.Ttf
Helvetica Cyrillic Bold Oblique=Helvetica Bold Oblique.Ttf
Helvetica Cyrillic Oblique=Helvetica Oblique.Ttf
KaiTi_GB2312=SIMKAI.TTF
font.dir.location=/fonts/

In a development mode on Windows, I don’t have any problem, my application works perfectly. But in a production mode on a UNIX system, special characters (like arrows) as not displayed well.
Must I absolutely copy my ttf files on the folder jre/lib/font server-side as mentionned here: http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.3/docs/guide/intl/addingfonts.html#adding ?

#28402

Try to enable debug output on the problem platform (pd4ml.enableDebugOutput()) and inspect STDOUT/server’s log. Does it try to load TTF files? Are the TTF URI correct?

#28403

Hi, thanks for your answer, this is an exemple of the output log when i create a PDF on production mode:

INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:49 | version: PD4ML 370 Pro
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:49 | not yet in cache: java:fonts/pd4fonts.properties
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:49 | 'helvetica' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:49 | reject TTF lookup for: 'helvetica'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:49 | 'aharoni' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:49 | reject TTF lookup for: 'aharoni'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:49 | 'impact' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:49 | reject TTF lookup for: 'impact'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | not yet in cache: file:/fonts//arialbd.ttf
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | /fonts/arialbd.ttf (No such file or directory)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | can not find 'arial bold' at file:/fonts//arialbd.ttf
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | reject TTF lookup for: 'arial bold'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | 'helvetica bold' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | reject TTF lookup for: 'helvetica bold'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | 'verdana bold' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | reject TTF lookup for: 'verdana bold'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | 'sans-serif bold' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | reject TTF lookup for: 'sans-serif bold'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | not yet in cache: file:/fonts//arial.ttf
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | /fonts/arial.ttf (No such file or directory)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | can not find 'arial' at file:/fonts//arial.ttf
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | reject TTF lookup for: 'arial'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | 'verdana' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | reject TTF lookup for: 'verdana'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | 'sans-serif' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | reject TTF lookup for: 'sans-serif'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | not yet in cache: file:/fonts//ariali.ttf
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | /fonts/ariali.ttf (No such file or directory)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | can not find 'arial italic' at file:/fonts//ariali.ttf
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | reject TTF lookup for: 'arial italic'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:50 | 'helvetica italic' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | reject TTF lookup for: 'helvetica italic'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | 'verdana italic' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | reject TTF lookup for: 'verdana italic'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | 'sans-serif italic' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | reject TTF lookup for: 'sans-serif italic'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | not yet in cache: file:/fonts//cour.ttf
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | /fonts/cour.ttf (No such file or directory)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | can not find 'courier new' at file:/fonts//cour.ttf
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | reject TTF lookup for: 'courier new'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | 'monospace' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | reject TTF lookup for: 'monospace'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | not yet in cache: file:/fonts//courbd.ttf
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | /fonts/courbd.ttf (No such file or directory)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | can not find 'courier new bold' at file:/fonts//courbd.ttf
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | reject TTF lookup for: 'courier new bold'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | not yet in cache: file:/fonts//arialbi.ttf
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | /fonts/arialbi.ttf (No such file or directory)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | can not find 'arial bold italic' at file:/fonts//arialbi.ttf
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | reject TTF lookup for: 'arial bold italic'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | 'helvetica bold italic' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | reject TTF lookup for: 'helvetica bold italic'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | 'verdana bold italic' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | reject TTF lookup for: 'verdana bold italic'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | 'sans-serif bold italic' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | reject TTF lookup for: 'sans-serif bold italic'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | 'times italic' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | reject TTF lookup for: 'times italic'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | 'times' is not in pd4fonts.properties file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | reject TTF lookup for: 'times'
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | not yet in cache: file:/fonts//couri.ttf
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | /fonts/couri.ttf (No such file or directory)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | can not find 'courier new italic' at file:/fonts//couri.ttf
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2011/02/15 05:22:51 | reject TTF lookup for: 'courier new italic'

as you can see he tries to load fonts but he doesn’t found anything. Do you think there is a path server side problem?

What is the mecanism used by pd4ml to get the font files ? Do you use a ClassLoader, an FileIntpuStream or something else ?
Also, it works correctly on our development machines (windows) but not on the production server (unix).

thanks in advance for your help,

John

#28404

Please check if the pd4fonts.properties has ttf.fonts.dir entry. Remove it if any.

#28405

I have same issue.
Did you resolve this issue?
If yes then please help me to figure it out.

Then very appreciate.

#28406

Please post your pd4fonts.properties file and debug output.

#28407

I am using pd4ml version 2.5.
In jsp file I tried to debug using <pd4ml:transform ... debug=true> but I didn’t get any information in server log file.
Am I doing correct way or have to do other way?
Please help me to figure it out .

Thanks…

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