Hi,
I'm new to FOP and feeling a little disoriented about the correct way to
change the look of the PDF that is output by FOP.
My source is an AsciiDoc text file and I have no trouble converting that to
a Docbook XML file.
$ asciidoc --backend=docbook45 book.txt
I can then use the fop command line tool to convert to a PDF file.
$ fop-2.1/fop -xml book.xml \
-xsl docbook-xsl-ns-1.79.1/fo/docbook.xsl \
-pdf book.pdf
The default look of the produced book.pdf is nice but I'd like to adjust
font families, font sizes, margins, etc.
I did discover one way to customize the fonts by creating a fop.xconf file
with the following content
<fop version="1.0">
<renderers>
<renderer mime="application/pdf">
<fonts>
<font kerning="yes"
embed-url="fonts/MyriadPro-Cond.otf" embedding-mode="subset">
<font-triplet name="Myriad-Condensed"
style="normal" weight="normal"/>
</font>
<font kerning="yes"
embed-url="fonts/MinionPro-Regular.otf" embedding-mode="subset">
<font-triplet name="Minion-Regular" style="normal"
weight="normal"/>
</font>
<font kerning="yes" embed-url="fonts/Andale Mono.ttf"
embedding-mode="subset">
<font-triplet name="Andale-Mono" style="normal"
weight="normal"/>
</font>
</fonts>
</renderer>
</renderers>
</fop>
and then using the following command
$ fop-2.1/fop -c fop.xconf \
-xml book.xml \
-xsl docbook-xsl-ns-1.79.1/fo/docbook.xsl \
-param body.font.family Minion-Regular \
-param title.font.family Myriad-Condensed \
-param monospace.font.family Andale-Mono \
-pdf book.pdf
Even though the above font setting technique was something I learned from a
blog on the Web, at this point, I'm already unsure if I'm going in the
right to doing this kind of customization properly or not. I imagine there
is a better way to than passing a growing number of parameters to the fop
command line tool.
Then I tried to see if I could have an affect on margins and the footer
font.
$ fop-2.1/fop -c fop.xconf \
-xml book.xml \
-xsl docbook-xsl-ns-1.79.1/fo/docbook.xsl \
-param body.font.family Minion-Regular \
-param title.font.family Myriad-Condensed \
-param page.margin.top 0 \
-param footer.content.font-family Helvetica \
-param monospace.font.family Andale-Mono \
-pdf book.pdf
The page.margin.top param did work. A small success!
The footer.content.font-family param did not work. I also tried
footer.content.properties.font-family, footer.content.font.family, and
footer.content.properties.font.family without finding the right solution.
What's the right way to configure things so fop is outputting the PDF I
dream of sharing with folks?
Thanks!
Peter
