Documents in PDF format

To be able to print PDF documents, configure the external processor XSL-FO (XSL formatting objects). This article describes how to configure Apache FOP.

Connect to the server with the platform via SSH. For more information about connecting via SSH, see Workstation setup.
Specify the parameters for calling the FO processor. Add the following line to the BILLmanager configuration file — /usr/local/mgr5/etc/billmgr.conf:
billmgr.conf
```
XSLFOProc fop -c /etc/fop.conf.d/userconfig.xml -xml __xml__ -xsl __xsl__ -pdf __pdf__
```
Parameters in double underscores ("__xml__", "__xsl__" and "__pdf__") will automatically be replaced with the directories of the corresponding files.
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For example, the command to be executed:
```
/bin/sh -c fop\ -c\ /etc/fop.conf.d/userconfig.xml\ -xml\ tmp/xml.fTqNMx\ -xsl\ skins/common/xsl/report.pdf.xsl\ -pdf\ tmp/pdf.mXEPYN
```
In the string, the parameters "__xml__" and "__pdf__" were automatically replaced with the values tmp/xml.fTqNMx and tmp/pdf.mXEPYN, respectively.
Upload the font file into the /etc/fop.conf.d/fonts/fonts/ directory.
The font used for the example is Arial.
Once the file is posted, generate the metrics file:
/etc/fop.conf.d/fonts/
```
fop-ttfreader /etc/fop.conf.d/fonts/arial.ttf /etc/fop.conf.d/fonts/arial.xml
```

Register the font you are using. The FOP configuration file is used to register fonts: /etc/fop.conf.d/userconfig.xml. If such a file does not exist, create it manually.
The contents of the FOP configuration file in which the Arial font is registered:

userconfig.xml'

<?xml version="1.0"?>
  <fop>
    <renderers>
      <renderer mime="application/pdf">
        <fonts>
          <font metrics-url="/etc/fop.conf.d/fonts/arial.xml" kerning="yes" embed-url="/etc/fop.conf.d/fonts/arial.ttf">
            <font-triplet name="Arial" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
            <font-triplet name="ArialMT" style="normal" weight="normal"/>
          </font>
        </fonts>
      </renderer>
    </renderers>
  </fop>

Restart BILLmanager:

/usr/local/mgr5/sbin/mgrctl -m billmgr exit