Providing fonts for XSL-FO-transformations - SysAdmin

Font installation

New fonts need to be copied to the server by terminal.

Preinstalled fonts are in /opt/corpus/css/app/services/xslfop/fonts/

Requirement:If the directory /opt/corpus/cscs/app/services/xslfop/fonts/ does not yet exist you must create it to be update safe.

Now copy your new fonts to /opt/corpus/cscs/app/services/xslfop/fonts/ The fonts should be in format TTF (or maybe OTF)

Check the permissions and ownership of your new fonts on server. This should be: -rw-r--r-- 1 corpus corpus

Service configuration

Requirement:If the file /opt/corpus/cscs/app/services/xslfop/fop-config.xml does not exist yet you must copy fop-config.xml from .../css/app/services/xslfop/ to be update safe.

In fop-config.xml you need to edit (line marked with "+" is a new line, remove the "+")

      <fonts>         <directory>/opt/corpus/css/app/services/xslfop/fonts</directory> +        <directory>/opt/corpus/cscs/app/services/xslfop/fonts</directory>         <auto-detect/>

Hints: In AdminClient the "Services / XSL-FO / Configuration" is only related to .../services/xslfop/config.xml, which is active in standard and needs no further change.

<auto-detect/> finds every font on machine, so this might affect performance

<auto-detect/> and <directory/> can be used single wise or in parallel

Please always define new <directory/> in fop-config.xml where you put your fonts in - as if later someone for performance reasons should deactivate <auto-detect/> these fonts would not be found any longer.

Finally "Update Server Configuration" must be done to activate the changes (even if only a new font was installed and no fop-config.xml changed). As a general recommendation this should be done in a maintenance window, please.