I once thought of doing an embed/unembed/change font utility and it's not that hard to do for single byte fonts. For fonts like TT with Identity-H it requires to go to the content stream and change the string. Of course, this is always assuming that a valid mapping to Unicode can be found, and that's not always true.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Leonard Rosenthol > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 5:38 PM > To: Philip Kaplan; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Embedding fonts in an EXISTING document > > At 12:31 PM 4/15/2005, Philip Kaplan wrote: > >Thanks Leonard. I am still surprised, however, that I could not walk > >a document page by page and interrogate the page to determine which > >fonts are in use... > > Well, it's a bit trickier than that - since you not > only have to > do it page by page - but potentially recurse into the myriad of other > content types that can reference fonts (eg. Form XObjects, > Type 3 Fonts, > Annotations, Patterns). > > But sure, that's all those applications are you > doing - you could > do that with iText as well. > > > >and then embed them (sort of a hybrid of the merge document example). > > I don't believe (and Paolo will correct me) that > PdfStamper will > allow that type of modification to the PDF object tree. > > You'll also have to write your own font embedding, since the > current embedding code fits into the generator pretty > tightly. It might be > possible to extracate it if you really tried. > > And finally, you have to worry about the myriad of > encodings and > making sure that you are matching them correctly... > > > Leonard > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > Leonard Rosenthol > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> > PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) > 215-938-0880 (fax) > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from > real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
