cjk-enabling fop

Hello Mike and everybody,

I've been using 

     fop
     http://xml.apache.org/fop

to generate pdf documents from the intermediary xml format fo 
generated by xml on SuSE Linux 10.1.

Unfortunately the fop version installed on SuSE 10.1 fails to render all
characters except those in a very limited set, containing not much more than
ASCII.  Those outside this set are displayed as "#"

Looking at the documentation

 - FOP FAQ: Some characters are ... displayed as "#"
   http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/faq.html#pdf-characters

 - FOP Fonts 
   http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.20.5/fonts.html

This uses a tool called TTFRead which requires some Java libraries.  Lacking
experience in Java, I haven't checked yet whether these are available on SuSE
10.1 or must be installed manually.
 
In 

   file:///usr/share/doc/packages/fop/examples/fo/advanced/cid-fonts.pdf

there is an example from the FOP documentation that claims to show embedded
Japanese CID-keyed fonts.  However, these are displayed only by acroread, not
by xpdf (which otherwise display CJK fonts perfectly on SuSE 10.1).  Also,
both xpdf and acroread issue warnings that the file is "damaged".  Xpdf also
says that it is "attempting to reconstruct xref table".

Before diving deeply into this and attempting to configure a working
unicode-based docbook->fo->pdf production system, I wanted to ask whether
anyone has any experience with this or perhaps even some working package
for the next SuSE release.

--
Hartmut Pilch				http://a2e.de/phm


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