Bug 462206

Summary: RFE: please support "check" and "cross" characters in PDF
Product: [Community] Publican Reporter: Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component: publicanAssignee: Jeff Fearn <jfearn>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Michael Hideo <mhideo>
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Version: 2.0CC: mmcallis, publican-list, vdanen
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Description Murray McAllister 2008-09-14 01:12:00 EDT 
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Description of problem:

"&check;" and "&cross;" appear as squares in PDF builds. Works in HTML.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.2 (Tikanga)
* publican-0.37-0.el5
* saxon-6.5.5-1jpp.3.el5
* fop-0.95-0.2.beta1.rh1.el5
* evince-0.6.0-8.el5
* Firefox 3.0.1 (from <http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/>)

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Use "&check;" and "&cross;" in a document.
2. make html-en-US; make pdf-en-US
  
Actual results:

* check and cross characters appear in HTML build.
* squares where check and cross characters should be in PDF build.

See results.tar.gz for HTML and PDF output images.

Expected results:
* check and cross characters in PDF, please.

Additional info:

* issue is not brand-dependent.

* occurs when used in and out of tables.

* the HTML and HTML-single outputs from a document with "&check;" and "&cross;" are XHTML 1.0 Strict according to <http://validator.w3.org/>.

* <http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/wd-docbook-xmlcharent-0.3.html>
Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2008-10-04 00:55:05 EDT 
Hi,

Any updates on whether this is possible, and if it is, when to expect check and cross to be supported in PDF?

Thanks!
Comment 2 Jeff Fearn 2008-10-06 02:17:37 EDT 
The check and cross entities are not in the liberation fonts. Since FOP can not do per glyph font selection the PDF can not fall back to another font like the HTML renderers can.

It may be possible to use a tag or attribute specifically to override the font used, however this would be messy so you'd need to get some community consensus on how that would be done.

It may be easier to get the liberation maintainers to add these glyphs to the font :)
Comment 3 Jeff Fearn 2008-10-12 19:51:50 EDT 
This is not a bug in publican and should be fixed in either the font or FOP. Please open a bug against either of those components if you feel it's required.