If the font that must be set to Apache FOP is one of the fonts that are installed in the
operating system you should follow the next steps for creating and setting a FOP
configuration file that looks for the font that it needs in the system fonts. It is a
simplified version of the procedure for setting a custom font in Apache FOP.
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Register the font in FOP configuration. (not necessary in case of DITA PDF
transformations, see next step)
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Create a FOP configuration file that specifies that FOP should look for fonts in
the installed fonts of the operating system.
<fop version="1.0">
<renderers>
<renderer mime="application/pdf">
<fonts>
<auto-detect/>
</fonts>
</renderer>
</renderers>
</fop>
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Set the FOP configuration file in Preferences.
Go to menu and enter the path of the FOP configuration file in the
Configuration file for the built-in FOP text field.
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Set the font on the document content.
This is done usually with XSLT stylesheet parameters and depends on the document type
processed by the stylesheet.
- For DocBook documents you can start with the predefined scenario called DocBook
PDF, edit the XSLT parameters and set the font name (in our example
the font family name is Arial Unicode MS) to the parameters
body.font.family and
title.font.family.
- For TEI documents you can start with the predefined scenario called TEI
PDF, edit the XSLT parameters and set the font name (in our example
Arial Unicode MS) to the parameters bodyFont and
sansFont.
- For DITA transformations using DITA-OT you should use an IDIOM FOP transformation
and modify the following two files: