Thank you for you answer, Tilman. As I would like to try to remove the embedded fonts from the PDF file, Is it possible to do it using a PDFBox code?
Fabio > It might be possible to create your own different encoding as described > in page 264 of the PDF specification, and delete the embedded font > later. I haven't tested it and won't do it, and here's why: you should > embed your fonts. Not embedding might result in weird effects with some > viewers, e.g. getting different glyphs, squares or nothing at all. So it > would be several hours of work to create a bad PDF file with some code > that is hard to understand. > > Are you aware that you can embed subsets? These are much smaller than > full fonts. Use PDType0Font.load(). > Tilman Fabio Vassallo Product Development (CIS) Würth Phoenix S.r.l. via Kravogl 4, 39100 Bolzano T: +39 0471 564 116 F: +39 0471 564 122 Website | e-Mail | Map -----Original Message----- From: Tilman Hausherr [mailto:thaush...@t-online.de] Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 6:08 PM To: users@pdfbox.apache.org Subject: Re: Embedded vs. non-embedded fonts (PDFBox & iText) See my answer from 10.3.2017. Tilman Am 04.04.2017 um 12:01 schrieb Vassallo, Fabio: > > Good morning. > > I'm currently using PDFBox to build documents for the company I’m > working for, and I need to print strings with generic character, also > non in the WinAnsiEncoding range (e.g. “ł”). > > And I shouldn’t embed fonts in the PDF documents. > > If I use the internal PDFBox fonts (e.g. PDType1Font.HELVETICA) > apparently no fonts are than embedded in the document. > > So I assume that the document, when displayed, refers to Fonts present > in the PC (Arial?); nevertheless PDPageContentStream.showText() throws > an IllegalArgumentException for such “special” characters. > > Using iText I could use the following call: > > *Font myFont = com.itextpdf.text.FontFactory.getFont(name, size, > style, color);* > > Using variable “myFont”, now I can refer to the font with no font > embedding, and I can use also non-WinAnsiEncoding characters. > > Is there any way or workaround in PDFBox to generate a file with no > embedded files and with “special” characters? > > If not, will it be possible in one of the next PDFBox releases? > > Thank you very much in advance, > > Fabio Vassallo > > *Fabio Vassallo* > Product Development (CIS) > http://hafisherhomes.com/wp-content/themes/hughfisher/img/galleryDivid > erLine.png > > cid:image001.png@01D18B3E.92F52E70 > > Würth Phoenix S.r.l. > via Kravogl 4, 39100 Bolzano > > T: +39 0471 564 116 > > F: +39 0471 564 122 > > Website <http://www.wuerth-phoenix.com/>| e-Mail > <mailto:fabio.vassa...@wuerth-phoenix.com>| Map > <https://www.google.de/maps/place/Wuerth+Phoenix+S.R.L./@46.474192,11. > 33141,15z/data=%214m2%213m1%211s0x0:0x98a5db69edb2a02?hl=en> > http://hafisherhomes.com/wp-content/themes/hughfisher/img/galleryDivid > erLine.png > > twitter-2 <https://twitter.com/WuerthPhoenix>wordpress-2 > <http://www.neteye-blog.com/>linkedin > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/wuerth-phoenix>youtube > <https://www.youtube.com/user/WuerthPhoenix>http://feng-shui-web.net/b > log2/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/xing-icon.png > <https://www.xing.com/companies/w%C3%BCrthphoenixsrl>facebook > <https://www.facebook.com/wuerthphoenix> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
