RE: [iText-questions] Font display issue

[Paulo Soares]

Let's say you'll be using arial (any other font TT or T1 will also work).

 

BaseFont bf1 = BaseFont.createFont("c:\\windows\\fonts\\arial.ttf", BaseFont.WINANSI, true, false, null, null);

bf1.setPostscriptFontName("font1name");

// change the widths for bf1

BaseFont bf2 = BaseFont.createFont("c:\\windows\\fonts\\arial.ttf", BaseFont.WINANSI, true, false, null, null);

bf2.setPostscriptFontName("font2name");

// change the widths for bf2

 

Best Regards,

Paulo Soares

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From: Hari Krishnan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:52 PM
To: Paulo Soares
Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Font display issue

Thanks for your response. I am sorry for the late response but how would I be able to embed the font and change it's name. I am using The PdfContentByte setFontandSize method to set the fontand the beginText showText and endText methods to place text on the PDF. Any examples using this would be helpful. Once again thank you for your response.

-Hari

Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

It's a different problem here. All the fonts have the same name, let's
say Helvetica, but have different widths and that scrambles the viewer
that only looks at the font name. That said, you can't have the same
default font with different widths. To do what you want to do you'll
have to embed the font and change the name.

Best Regards,
Paulo Soares

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:35 AM
> To: Hari Krishnan; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Font display issue
>
> At 11:09 PM 5/19/2004, Hari Krishnan wrote:
> > I am creating a translator program that creates a pdf
> from different
> > formats
> >namely afp using iText using default fonts. To better match
> parameters of
> >font
> >widths. I override the font widths of helvetica to
> correspond to the font
> >width
> >that the afp document provides for it's custom font.
>
> Don't do that!! Doing so will create a PDF that
> will NOT display
> consistantly in all PDF viewers or print on PDF-capable RIPs.
>
> As documented in the PDF reference, the /Widths
> table MUST match
> the data in the font...
>
>
> Leonard
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