OK, now I'm stumped.

Parsing a PDF, I need to handle the Tf (set font) operator. The font situation 
in PDF files is inordinately complicated, and reading the spec alone is not 
really leading to the light-bulb moment.

Basically, when I get the Tf operator, I need to end up with a CGFontRef I can 
use. I see a number of CGFontCreate… methods, none of which really fit anything 
I can see in the PDF spec itself. Perhaps CGFontCreateWithDataProvider is the 
"magic bullet" that just works behind the scenes to make sense of the almost 
innumerable PDF variations, but I can't see how I even get to the point where I 
could use it.

For example, one of my test files has a Tf operator that references a Font 
resource C2_0, which returns a dictionary object like this:

2013-08-27 12:08:10.303 PDFParser[43098:303] PDF Dictionary {
2013-08-27 12:08:10.303 PDFParser[43098:303] 
'BaseFont'=[Name]'JOZTES+DFHei-Lt-HK-BF',
2013-08-27 12:08:10.303 PDFParser[43098:303] 'DescendantFonts'=[Array],
2013-08-27 12:08:10.304 PDFParser[43098:303] 'Encoding'=[Name]'Identity-H',
2013-08-27 12:08:10.304 PDFParser[43098:303] 'Subtype'=[Name]'Type0',
2013-08-27 12:08:10.304 PDFParser[43098:303] 'ToUnicode'=[Stream],
2013-08-27 12:08:10.304 PDFParser[43098:303] 'Type'=[Name]'Font',
2013-08-27 12:08:10.304 PDFParser[43098:303] };

I see this in the PDF spec; it's just one among many possible font types and 
formats, but I have no idea how to go from this to a CGFontRef.

Has anyone got any pointers or sample code on how the Tf operator should be 
handled in general?


--Graham


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