Regarding Martin's report here:
I've got a fix and am in the midst of rolling it out. I edited the mimetype handling for Firefox and determined that the important files that get edited when you do this are <profilename.default>\mimeTypes.rdf and <profilename.default>\prefs.js. I'm now pushing those files in to the Default User FF profile.
January 20, 2009
Migrated fop-config.xsl to the production server (see previous message). PDF fonts seem to be working fine.
January 19, 2009
On late duty.
Posting time spent working on a Ruby problem on the DHSI site. Not solved, but certainly narrowed down...
The problems with Windows continue, this time with the PDF generation, which depends on FOP being able to find the TTF font files. The trailing-slash issue seemed to be at the heart of it, but then I discovered that there was also an issue with the root path containing backslashes, but the relative path component for fonts having forward slashes.
After much pain and suffering, looking for a way to determine what host os Cocoon is running on, I decided that I can make that decision based on the presence of backslashes in the root path. If there are backslashes, then I conclude that it's running on Windows, so I need to change forward slashes to backslashes, and make sure the trailing slash is added to the end of the root path.
This is done in the file:
fop-config.xsl
Tomorrow, I'll try migrating this solution to the live server, with the usual caution.
Holding the fort for a couple of days last week while Greg in Chicago. Worked on getting Western Deans site ready with Web Office template modifications.
Received a bunch more files and bits of css from Joel, Joyce and Beth. Implemented those on the Western Deans, Social Justice and Medieval Studies mockup. Joel came in on Monday morning to go over details of modifications I'd made to css.
BC came down to discuss the kinds of changes he could make on the Social Justice site (and what software to use) and what changes the HCMC would make. Settled on a fairly conventional "text and content" for him and "structure and navigation" for us division of labour.
Set Marri up with Oxygen on Mac. Gave her the most recent data file (it lacks judge names).
Based on her first couple of hours, I edited the schema file to allow multiple (rather than one) outcomes and made a couple of other minor modifications.
Once the data set is cleaned up, I'll need to revisit whether the db engine should be relational or xml based.
Cautiously migrated the four changed files listed in the previous post to the main site, and tested; PDFs are working fine, with embedded images, and backups are also working.