[Archivesspace_Users_Group] PDF export issue
Hitomi Matsuyama
matsuyama at nak-osaka.jp
Mon Oct 5 01:15:07 EDT 2020
Dear Mark and all,
After having tried the way with FOP as Mark suggested, we are still stuck in
this issue…
Attached are as-ead-pdf.xsl file, fop-config.xml, and PDFs generated from
PUI; public_print.pdf and from Staff side; staff_print.pdf.
We are using the ArchivesSpace V2.8.0. and specify Japanese as the language
of description.
Do you have any idea of what we missed?
If you need further information on our setting, let me know.
Thank you in advance!
Hitomi Matsuyama, Audiovisual Archivist
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
1-1-86-8F Noda, Fukushima-ku
Osaka 553-0005 JAPAN
tel. +81 (0)6 64 69 51 93
email. matsuyama at nak-osaka.jp
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Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PDF export issue
Thank you very much Mark, Steve, and Maura for your prompt responses!
We will follow Mark’s advice. Thanks a lot.
All the best,
Hitomi
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Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PDF export issue
Steve, all:
It looks like it does cause an issue for the PUI PDFs, as well, at least
with an example that I just tested thanks to Maura Carbone, who provided a
sample bit of text to try (hi, Maura!). See:
http://test.archivesspace.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/3909.
When I tried the PUI PDF option in that case, the contents of the note were
entirely missing (whereas on the staff side, the process replaces any glyphs
that are not found in the current font with the "#" character). The PUI PDF
process is handled quite differently, though, since that process goes from
HTML to PDF.
In both cases, it seems like there should be easier configuration options,
since there's no font (or even font family) that's going to cover all
character sets.
With Apache FOP, which is used on the staff side, you can configure FOP to
auto-detect fonts but you'd still need to make sure to add the fonts where
FOP can find them. That said, since the "stylesheets" directory in ASpace is
not part of the WAR files, I'd think you could just update those files on
the server without too much trouble. Here's some info on that
https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/2.1/fonts.html#bulk. Then you'd just
need to update the transformation file, which is also in that "stylesheets"
directory.
I just did that to test things out and that worked. Example:
* Download new fonts, e.g. https://ctan.org/pkg/ipaex
* Add those to the fop-config.xml file
* Update the as-ead-pdf.xsl file to refer to the new fonts (and this
last bit could be handled with a parameter or other means). That said, it
would be ideal in ASpace to be able to specify the language contents of the
description to clearly indicate the language and scripts that are in use,
especially if you want to switch between fonts for different scripts, etc.
Example screenshot attached.
Mark
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Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PDF export issue
Yes, a sample would be useful to try to reproduce the issue. It would also
be interesting to know if both the staff PDF export and the PUI PDF show the
same problems. - Steve M.
On Sep 29, 2020, at 11:42 AM, Custer, Mark <mark.custer at yale.edu
<mailto:mark.custer at yale.edu> > wrote:
Dear Hitomi Matsuyama,
Which version of ArchivesSpace are you using?
I'm not familiar with those configuratio settings, but I suspect that they
might just be for the PDF formats of the Reports, not for the PDF format of
the EAD conversion process.
On newer releases of ArchivesSpace, the default font for the EAD to PDF
conversion has been updated to use the NotoSerif font family. See:
https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/blob/master/stylesheets/fop-c
onfig.xml
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Also, I am assuming that you are referring to the EAD to PDF process in the
ArchivesSpace staff interface, i.e. Export --> Generate PDF. If that's not
right, just let me know. If that is right, could you share a sample EAD file
that could be used for testing with a different font?
All my best,
Mark
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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] PDF export issue
Hello all,
We've had some trouble with PDF export in Japanese.
Descriptive information written with Japanese characters, hiragana,
katakana, and kanji, are not exported to ArchivesSpace formatted
finding-aids at all.
Our IT staff has tried to modify config.rb as follows in order to add some
Japanese specific font types;
AppConfig[:report_pdf_font_paths] = proc {
["#{AppConfig[:backend_url]}/reports/static/fonts/ipa/ipag.ttf"] }
AppConfig[:report_pdf_font_family] = "IPAexゴシック, \"IPA Pゴシック\",
\"ヒラギノ角ゴ ProN W3\", \"Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN\", メイリオ, Meiryo,
\"MS Pゴシック\", sans-serif"
However, this doesn’t work out and the description in Japanese is still
missing in a PDF.
Have any non-alphabet language users ever faced the same problem?
If it’s been already solved, let us know how to get through.
Thank you!
Hitomi Matsuyama, Audiovisual Archivist
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
1-1-86-8F Noda, Fukushima-ku
Osaka 553-0005 JAPAN
tel. +81 (0)6 64 69 51 93
email. matsuyama at nak-osaka.jp <mailto:matsuyama at nak-osaka.jp>
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