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ronny.flink@...
 

Dear DITA users,
Please, I hope anyone here can help me, because this is making me go insane.
I’m trying to publish a PDF with the Roboto using DITA-OT 3.3.1 and FOP.
I have tried to follow this step by step: https://github.com/oxygenxml/com.oxygenxml.pdf2.ug/wiki/Custom-fonts
But without any success, feels like I have made every minor tweak a hundred times. The font-mapping works and I can get fonts like Tahoma or Trebucet in the PDF output.
Also tried all kinds of changes to the fop.xconf.
If anyone of you have made Roboto font work with FOP, please share.

Best regards
Ronny
Ron Wheeler
 

What operating system are you using to produce the PDF?
Are you sure that Roboto is installed on your computer?
Ron

On 2020-03-24 2:13 p.m., ronny.flink@... wrote:
Dear DITA users,
Please, I hope anyone here can help me, because this is making me go insane.
I’m trying to publish a PDF with the Roboto using DITA-OT 3.3.1 and FOP.
I have tried to follow this step by step: https://github.com/oxygenxml/com.oxygenxml.pdf2.ug/wiki/Custom-fonts
But without any success, feels like I have made every minor tweak a hundred times. The font-mapping works and I can get fonts like Tahoma or Trebucet in the PDF output.
Also tried all kinds of changes to the fop.xconf.
If anyone of you have made Roboto font work with FOP, please share.

Best regards
Ronny

Kristen James Eberlein
 

I have used Roboto as the font for PDF plug-ins without any problems.

Have you:

  • Verified that the Roboto fonts are installed on the system where DITA-OT installed?
  • Examined the DITA-OT log to see if there are errors about fonts not being found?
  • Correctly specified Roboto in the font mappings file?
  • Correctly specified the font mappings file in the catalog file?

Thank you for making me aware of the Oxygen resource about PDF customization; I was not aware of it.

Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
OASIS Distinguished Contributor
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting LLC
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)

On 3/24/2020 2:13 PM, ronny.flink@... wrote:
Dear DITA users,
Please, I hope anyone here can help me, because this is making me go insane.
I’m trying to publish a PDF with the Roboto using DITA-OT 3.3.1 and FOP.
I have tried to follow this step by step: https://github.com/oxygenxml/com.oxygenxml.pdf2.ug/wiki/Custom-fonts
But without any success, feels like I have made every minor tweak a hundred times. The font-mapping works and I can get fonts like Tahoma or Trebucet in the PDF output.
Also tried all kinds of changes to the fop.xconf.
If anyone of you have made Roboto font work with FOP, please share.

Best regards
Ronny

ronny.flink@...
 

Thank you all for your replies,

The problem is solved, thanks this email reply below: 😎

“Are you on Windows? If so, make sure you have installed the font for all users. Right-click the font name in Window Explorer and choose Install for all users. Oxygen seems to run under the administrator user.
 
We just struggled with this same issue when getting a new writer up and running on Windows (I’m on Mac)”

I’m on Windows, so what I did was download the font again and right click “Install for all users”

Best regards
Ronny
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