doxia book with APT verbatim text not monospaced in PDF

David, could you attach a simple test case? Thanks.

Using the file https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/doxia/doxia/trunk/doxia-book/src/site/apt/usage.apt as input causes the problem.

I don't know how to make a test case that takes in APT and outputs PDF via the itext module. Perhaps there needs to some integration tests in some other module for this purpose.

Ok, here is a project I generated with archetype:create and then added the doxia-books plugin and an example APT with a verbatim block.

To build it:

mvn org.apache.maven.doxia:doxia-maven-plugin:render-books

Then look at the PDF in target and see that it does not used a fixed-width font.

The normal iText's behaviour for monospaced font is to use Courier font [1]. So this issue sounds like a font limitation in iText.

[1] http://www.koders.com/java/fid0F5FF00C3DD7D92F1C08A527FCF3E837D13F13B8.aspx?s=mdef%3Ainsert#L114

Vincent,

The iText code you link to looks fine. But if I look in org.apache.maven.doxia.module.itext.ITextSink the verbatim() method doesn't seem to mention monospaced fonts, even though there is an ITextFont.getMonoSpacedFont() method. Infact getMonoSpacedFont() is never called.

Ideally we should have a call to font.setMonospaced(true) in verbatim(), and call font.setMonospaced(false) in _verbatim().

David

I tried this patch. But it didn't seem to fix it. Not sure why?

attached: verbatim_font_change.patch

Should work, but iText 1.4.0 has an issue about XML handler which has been solved with 1.4.1, according the release note [1].

[1] http://www.lowagie.com/iText/history.html

I see iText 1.4.8 is released and also in the maven central repo.
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/lowagie/itext/1.4.8/

iText 1.4.4+ is not backward compatible: see 1.4.4 release note:
"removal of some XmlToXXX classes that weren't used anymore"

So, we need iText < 1.4.4 or could you provide a patch to bump to iText:1.4.8?

Ask and you shall receive!

I've attached 3 files.

• doxia-modules-itext-updgrade.1.4.8.patch
• before.pdf
• after.pdf

The patch is a first draft, but it does seem to work fine in generating PDF from XML. But this approach seems to be discouraged from the iText guys. We should be firing our events directly into a PdfWriter, not writing an intermediate XML file. Also note that I've broken RTF generation in the process. Should be a similar fix, but using RtfWriter2 instead of PdfWriter.

So until the RTF gets fixed the patch is not ready.

Also see before.pdf and after.pdf. The changes I've noticed (using Apple Preview application to view them) is the headings are slightly more bold. The monospaced fonts work !!!! Wooo!!!! And the table headings are in the after but not before. So that must fix another issue too!

Ok it's getting late. So the RTF fix can wait for another day.

David