I can't change my Font Family using Apache FOP

Question

I am trying to use fop Quick Start Guide to print a simple PDF file from a simple XML file and it works fine. but when I change <name>Frank</name> to <name>امیررضا</name> (change name to other encoding) I get #### in my printed PDF. I search through the Internet and couldn't find any feasible solution. I use many config files here are some of my them:

I use this command for creating pdf:

fop -c cfg.xml -xml name.xml -xsl name2fo.xsl -pdf name.pdf

When I use this command I get below warning:

WARNING: xHeight value could not be determined. The font may not work as
Sep 15, 2011 9:15:37 AM org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener proce
WARNING: Glyph "╙" (0x633, afii57427) not available in font "Helvetica".
Sep 15, 2011 9:15:37 AM org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener proce
WARNING: Glyph "╘" (0x634, afii57428) not available in font "Helvetica".

1- name.xml contains:

<name>امیررضا</name>

2-name2fo.xsl contains:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
      xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <fo:root>
      <fo:layout-master-set>
        <fo:simple-page-master master-name="A4-portrait"
              page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21.0cm" margin="2cm">
          <fo:region-body/>
        </fo:simple-page-master>
      </fo:layout-master-set>
      <fo:page-sequence master-reference="A4-portrait">
        <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
          <fo:block>
            Hello, <xsl:value-of select="name"/>!
          </fo:block>
        </fo:flow>
      </fo:page-sequence>
    </fo:root>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

3- have try many different config file (cfg.xml).

3.1:

<fop version="1.0">
<renderers>
    <renderer mime="application/pdf">      
      <fonts>
        <substitutions>
         <substitution>
            <from font-family="Helvetica" />
            <to font-family="SansSerif"/>
         </substitution>
        </substitutions>
        <referenced-fonts>
            <match font-family=".*"/>        
        </referenced-fonts>     
           <!-- register all the fonts found in a directory and all of its sub directories (use with care) -->
        <directory recursive="true">G:\....\fop\fop-1.0\Core14_AFMs</directory>

         <!-- automatically detect operating system installed fonts -->
        <auto-detect/>  
      <font embed-url="C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\times.ttf">
        <font-triplet name="Times New Roman" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
      </font>
      </fonts>
    </renderer>
  </renderers>
</fop>

3.2:

<fop version="1.0">
<renderers>
    <renderer mime="application/pdf">      
      <fonts>
        <substitutions>
         <substitution>
            <from font-family="Helvetica" />
            <to font-family="SansSerif"/>
         </substitution>
        </substitutions>
        <referenced-fonts>
            <match font-family=".*"/>        
        </referenced-fonts>               

         <!-- automatically detect operating system installed fonts -->
        <auto-detect/>  
      </fonts>
    </renderer>
  </renderers>
</fop>

3.3: ......

The result output is:

Hello, #######!

Can anyone help me fix this?

Answer 1

Support for languages written with right-to-left scripts such as Arabic & Hebrew and full bidi support was added in Apache FOP 1.1. Based on the date of this question, an older Apache FOP version was used. For more information, see http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/complexscripts.html.