Date: Thu Nov 11 2021 - 11:30:08 PST
Apologies for the long delay.
Here is the info. I tried swapping out the reference to Arial MS Unicode in the xep.xml file from the actual licensed version to Noto Sans. The content has Hindi, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese. None are showing up. So I fully expect something missing or misconfigured in our xep.xml file. For the Hindi content though. The latest version of FOP in DITA OT 3.6.1 was able to render the content in the PDF.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
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From: Xep-support <xep-support-bounces@renderx.com> On Behalf Of Kevin Brown
Sent: September 29, 2021 1:35 PM
To: 'RenderX Community Support List' <xep-support@renderx.com>
Subject: [xep-support] Re: multi-language support using XEP
* We do have xep.xml configured to load the Arial MS Unicode font in which the glyph does exist in that font.
How do you know this is correct? Please send your xep.xml lines where you have included the font including all pathing. Also include a screen shot of your directory that the font is located in. And finally include the relative xsl fo showing you are specifying that font. Note: Arial Unicode MS is a font which requires a license to use. You should own this license if you intend to use it and even then it is not recommended. The copyright notice for the font is very large and legally required to be inserted into the output. RenderX respects this and will insert the copyright information *even if you are only using one character of that font*. We have had customers complain that using one smiley face increases the output PDF size by 100kb. This is because the copyright notice must be inserted into the PDF output (something other formatters may not do).
* I did find the following thread from 2015 where it was mentioned Hindi/Devanagari is not supported. Is that still the case or was support added in newer versions of Xep?
It takes more than just a font to support Indic languages. The formatter engine must support advanced ligatures and glyph reshaping to properly format those languages.
RenderX does not include support for Indic languages.
Kevin Brown
RenderX
From: Xep-support <xep-support-bounces@renderx.com<mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com>> On Behalf Of Eric Sirois
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2021 7:43 AM
To: 'xep-support@renderx.com' <xep-support@renderx.com<mailto:xep-support@renderx.com>>
Subject: [xep-support] multi-language support using XEP
Hi,
A client of ours would like to have multi-language content show up in their PDFs, but they are getting blank boxes instead. We do have xep.xml configured to load the Arial MS Unicode font in which the glyph does exist in that font. I did find the following thread from 2015 where it was mentioned Hindi/Devanagari is not supported. Is that still the case or was support added in newer versions of Xep?
http://services.renderx.com/lists/xep-support/7405.html
Éric Sirois
DITA Toolsmith
IXIASOFT
45 Chemin Bates, Suite 220 • Montreal, QC H2V 1A6
tel + 1 514 279-4942 / toll free + 1 877 279-4942
mobile + 1 647 462-3620
eric.sirois_AT_ixiasoft.com<mailto:eric.sirois_AT_ixiasoft.com> / www.ixiasoft.com<http://www.ixiasoft.com/>
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