<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 15:59 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>Since a number of documents, especially the credits section in the Release</TT> <TT>Notes, use characters not found in the fop default base PostScript fonts,</TT> <TT>add a stylesheet for the fop generated documents to use the free DejaVu and</TT> <TT>GNU Unifont fonts which cover a much wider range of characters.</TT> </BLOCKQUOTE> It does not work for me. Without the patch, I notice in the credits section the first name, which is composed of oriental characters, is represented with # character. With the patch almost all characters are repesented with #. I suspect I don't have those fonts installed. I have some DejaVu fonts installed. There is unifont package which is not currently installed stating: <BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> This package is a convenient way to install both the PCF bitmap version and the scalable TrueType outline version of GNU Unifont. It also installs a copy of unifont.hex and related files in /usr/share/unifont. GNU Unifont was designed to render something besides an empty box for each visible Unicode character in the Basic Multilingual Plane (Plane 0).  Plane 0 contains most of the world's modern writing scripts. This font looks best at 12pt. Complex fonts (such as Indic or Semitic scripts, where letters change shape depending on their position in a word, or such as Mongolian, which is written vertically) will not render perfectly. The philosophy behind this font, though, is that anything meaningful is better than an empty box for a unknown glyph. Homepage: <A HREF="http://unifoundry.com">http://unifoundry.com</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Assuming these fonts will correct the situation, we will be facing a situation where the pdf is totally unreadable if the fonts are not installed and there is probably no way for the average user to find out why. </BODY> </HTML>