On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 08:27 -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > At 12:34 PM +0100 10/18/06, Peter B. West wrote: > >Is it reasonable for a PDF producer to rely on the "map to glyph 0" > >behaviour and expect that a viewer of the file will see .notdefs where > >the font did not contain a specific glyph for the character? > > If you are planning for your PDFs to be compliant with > international PDF standards such as PDF/X or PDF/A - then you can NOT > have ANY characters in teh PDF that map to .notdef. >
OK. > > >Perhaps we have missed some way of invoking the .notdef behaviour within > >iText? > > > > Why do you want this?!?!? Why would you want to put a > character into the text stream of a PDF that isn't drawn? And why > is Text Rendering mode #3 (no stroke or fill) not acceptable? > I don't want a character that isn't drawn - that's what is happening now by default. I want a character that is drawn as the .notdef glyph at glyph position 0. That's the raison d'etre of glyph 0 in a TT font, isn't it? I don't _want_ to put undefined characters in a PDF. But if I am handed text and a font such that there are characters in the text that are not represented in the font, I want that fact to be obvious to the observer of the PDF. That way I don't have to make arbitrary decisions about what to do with the characters. I rely on the default behaviour of the font. I am inexperienced with PDF (and with fonts in general, for that matter), but I see this behaviour in other applications - my browser for example. > > Leonard Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
