Re: [xep-support] Font names with parentheses in them

From: Justin Lipton <justin.lipton@exari.com>
Date: Wed May 09 2007 - 23:29:30 PDT

A bit more information if I quote the declaration e.g.

font-family=""OCR-B (CBA)", Symbol, serif"

I get the following Exception:

java.lang.RuntimeException: com.renderx.fonts.BadFontDataException: Could not obtain font metric for font family 'OCR-B (CBA)'

    at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.run(TransformerImpl.java:3363)

    at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerHandlerImpl.endDocument(TransformerHandlerImpl.java:427)

    at com.renderx.sax.SAXStorage$EndDocumentRecord.play(Unknown Source)

    at com.renderx.sax.SAXStorage.play(Unknown Source)

    at com.renderx.xep.FormatterCore$ContentHandlerDriver.endDocument(Unknown Source)

Justin Lipton wrote:

Hi,

Of late our good friends at Microsoft have taken to putting parentheses in font names - "Arial (W1)" is an example that keeps coming up.
Unfortunately these seems to break XEP 4.9

Here's the font definition fragment from my xep.xml

<font-group xml:base="file:/tmp/" label="Windows TrueType" embed="true" subset="true">

        <font-family name="OCR-B (CBA)">

            <font><font-data ttf="TT0646Z_.ttf"/></font>

        </font-family>

</font-group>

My relevant xsl:fo fragment looks like this:

<fo:block id="Paragraph_2" background-color="transparent" 
space-before="0pt" space-after="1.0E-4pt" line-height="120%"
 color="black" margin-right="0pt" margin-left="0pt" font-size="12pt" 
font-family="OCR-B (CBA), Symbol, serif" font-weight="normal" 
text-align="left" text-indent="0pt" white-space-collapse="false">
BTW OCR-B (CBA) rocks </fo:block>

XEP Warnings are:

XEP Warning: Unexpected token in font-family: FUNCTOR

XEP Warning: Unexpected token in font-family: RIGHT PARENTHESIS

and I get no PDF output.

I've also tried escaping the parentheses:

<fo:block id="Paragraph_2" background-color="transparent"
space-before="0pt" space-after="1.0E-4pt" line-height="120%"
color="black" margin-right="0pt" margin-left="0pt" font-size="12pt"
font-family="OCR-B \(CBA\), Symbol, serif" font-weight="normal"
text-align="left" text-indent="0pt" white-space-collapse="false">BTW
OCR-B (CBA) rocks </fo:block>

to no avail.

Renaming the font to remove the parentheses resolves the issue.
Is this a bug? - Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Justin.

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Received on Thu May 10 00:31:52 2007