What are Base-14 fonts supported in FOP for PDF?

FOP supports Base-14 fonts (required by all PDF viewers) for PDF output:

• 4 fonts for Helvetica family: normal, bold, italic, bold italic.
• 4 fonts for Times family: normal, bold, italic, bold italic.
• 4 fonts for Courier family: normal, bold, italic, bold italic.
• 1 font for Symbol family: normal, for Greek alphabets and some symbols like: Ω, φ, ≠.
• 1 font for ZapfDingbats family: normal, for Zapf dingbats like: ✌, ✍, ❀.

Here is how you can test this:

1. Create a FO file, base-14-fonts.fo:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- base-14-fonts.fo
     Copyright (c) 2018 FYIcenter.com
-->
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
  <fo:layout-master-set>
    <fo:simple-page-master master-name="myPage">
      <fo:region-body margin="1in"/>
    </fo:simple-page-master>
  </fo:layout-master-set>
  <fo:page-sequence master-reference="myPage">
    <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
      <fo:block font-family="Helvetica">Helvetica: Welcome to jar.FYIcenter.com!</fo:block>
      <fo:block font-family="Times">Times: Welcome to jar.FYIcenter.com!</fo:block>
      <fo:block font-family="Courier">Courier: Welcome to jar.FYIcenter.com!</fo:block>
      <fo:block>Symbol: <fo:inline font-family="Symbol">Ω φ ≠</fo:inline></fo:block>
      <fo:block>ZapfDingbats: <fo:inline font-family="ZapfDingbats">✌ ✍ ❀</fo:inline></fo:block>
    </fo:flow>
  </fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>

2. Generate the PDF output from this FO file.

\local\fop-2.2\fop>fop \fyicenter\base-14-fonts.fo \temp\base-14-fonts.pdf
org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener processEvent
INFO: Rendered page #1.

3. View the output PDF file, base-14-fonts.pdf, Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click "File > Properties" to open the properties screen. Then click the "Fonts" tab. You see the font information

Symbol
   Type: Type 1
   Encoding: Built-in
   Actual Font: Symbol
   Actual Font Type: Type 1

ZapfDingbats
   Type: Type 1
   Encoding: Built-in
   Actual Font: AdobePiStd
   Actual Font Type: Type 1

...

The picture below shows you Base-14 fonts used in the PDF file generated from FOP:

This tutorial is valid in FOP 2.2, 2.1, and 2.0.

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