Thank-you – just the information I needed. I'd forgotten about the "standard 14", as the environment I'm usually in when creating .pdfs gets round this limitation transparently. Updating the preferences to "Use Windows standard fonts" did the trick.
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Hussein Shafie <huss...@xmlmind.com> wrote: > On 09/23/2013 11:43 AM, Niels Grundtvig Nielsen wrote: > >> After checking the documentation, I have used the Change Document >> Conversion Parameters dialogue for the Convert to PDF, PostScript >> parameters and added two parameters: >> >> * body-font-family 'Arial' >> * title-font-family 'Arial' >> >> > I would say that the quotes are not needed here. > > > > The .pdf persists in giving me output in a serifed default font, so I'm >> obviously missing something. (I've already tried setting the values with >> and without single quotation marks). Advice welcome! including pointers >> towards help pages I may have failed to understand ;-} >> >> > Specifying XSLT parameters body-font-family and title-font-family is > indeed required, but this not sufficient due to the nature of PDF. > > PDF does not support the Arial font[*], but only the 14 PDF fonts (Times, > Helvetica, Courier, etc). Therefore you need to instruct the XSL-FO > processor (Apache FOP or RenderX XEP) to embed bits of the Arial font into > your PDF. > > This is done using "Preferences|Options", "FOP" (or "XEP") section. In > principle, simply clicking the "Use WindowsŽ standard fonts" button should > do the trick. > > More information in this FAQ which also applies to your use case: > > --- > When I convert documents written in Russian (or Polish or Czech or any > non-western language) to PDF, almost all characters are replaced by the "#" > character. Is there a workaround for this problem? > --- > http://www.xmlmind.com/**xmleditor/faq.html#custom_pdf_**fonts<http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/faq.html#custom_pdf_fonts> > > Do not forget to restart XXE before attempting to convert your document[*] > to PDF. > > > > --- > [*] May be recent versions of PDF support support fonts other than the 14 > PDF standard fonts. I don't know. > > [**] You may use XXE or the convertdoc command-line utility for that. > (Command-line utility convertoc is XXE without a GUI.) More information in > http://www.xmlmind.com/**xmleditor/_distrib/doc/**commands/convertdoc.html<http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/convertdoc.html> >
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