It's not forgotten but, as you said yourself, it solves your specific problem. I'll see if I can make it more generic but that takes time.
Paulo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lari Hotari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:02 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] contribution: FontReplacingPdfSmartCopy: duplicate TTF font subset merging and replacement (was: How to remove embedded fonts from a pdf document) > > > Hi, > > Have you had a chance to check this out? > (http://www.nabble.com/file/p15203186/itext_font_merging_patch.zip) > > Regards, > > Lari > > > > Paulo Soares wrote: >> >> I'll have a look. >> >> Paulo >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >>> Behalf Of Lari Hotari >>> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:03 PM >>> To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >>> Subject: [iText-questions] contribution: >>> FontReplacingPdfSmartCopy: duplicate TTF font subset merging >>> and replacement (was: How to remove embedded fonts from a pdf >>> document) >>> >>> >>> This contribution is about TTF font merging and replacement, >>> but it should >>> help with the original font problem. It would also be >>> possible to continue >>> developing this code to remove embedded fonts and replace >>> them with pdf >>> document fonts. With this code you can remove other fonts and >>> replace them >>> with some TTF font. >>> >>> Here's (itext_font_merging_patch.zip) some additional classes to >>> com.lowagie.text.pdf . >>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p15203186/itext_font_merging_patch.zip >>> itext_font_merging_patch.zip >>> The main class is FontReplacingPdfSmartCopy (extends PdfSmartCopy). >>> >>> This subclass of PdfSmartCopy will replace different subsets >>> of the same >>> font in the resulting pdf file with one font (same font name >>> or replacement >>> can be also done). It needs the TrueType font files (TTF) to >>> do the job. >>> >>> This usually reduces the final PDF file size by 40%-60% >>> compared to plain >>> PdfSmartCopy when several single page pdfs are merged in to >>> one big pdf >>> file. >>> >>> The original motivation was to make it possible to print very >>> large pdf >>> files which have been concatenated of thousands of small pdf files >>> containing the same fonts. Some printers just clog when they receive >>> thounsands of embedded fonts in a single print job. Maybe the >>> reason is that >>> the resulting Postscript files are quite huge when there's >>> thousands of >>> embedded fonts. Having less fonts makes it more simple to >>> print-process the >>> concatenated pdf. It also uses less disk space. >>> >>> Merging/replacement currently works only with WinAnsiEncoding >>> (iso-8859-1 / >>> Cp1252 / latin1) >>> >>> Page resources are scanned while copying and it checks for a >>> dictionary >>> under FONT key. Possible FONT references in the font >>> dictionary are replaced >>> on demand. The new font will get a new indirect reference and >>> the font will >>> be written to the stream in the overridden >>> PdfWriter.addSharedObjectsToBody() method. >>> >>> This class has to be in the com.lowagie.itext.pdf package >>> because it needs >>> access to some package private methods. >>> >>> I would like to contribute this implementation to the >>> community and I hope >>> this gets in to the itext release as soon as possible. Bruno >>> or Paulo, can >>> you add this to the itext release? >>> >>> There's also a helper class for concatenating pdfs. >>> >>> PdfConcator makes it easier to concatenate multiple PDF files >>> in to a single >>> PDF file. It uses FontReplacingPdfSmartCopy to reduce the >>> number of fonts in >>> the resulting PDF file. It's also possible to replace TTF >>> fonts with other >>> fonts. Sample usage: >>> >>> >>> PdfConcator pdfConcator=new PdfConcator(); >>> pdfConcator.setFontDir(new File("fonts")); // or >>> pdfConcator.useDefaultSystemFonts(); >>> Map fontNameMapping = new HashMap(); >>> fontNameMapping.put("ComicSansMS", "Arial-Black"); >>> pdfConcator.setFontNameMapping(fontNameMapping); >>> >>> List files = new ArrayList(); >>> files.add("pdf1.pdf"); >>> files.add("pdf2.pdf"); >>> pdfConcator.concat(files, new File("concat.pdf")); >>> >>> Supports IoC/DI. Example Spring configuration xml: >>> >>> <beans >>> xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans >>> http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd";> >>> <bean id="pdfConcator" class="com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfConcator"> >>> <property name="fonts"> >>> <bean factory-bean="fontArrayFactory" >>> factory-method="getInstance"/> >>> </property> >>> <property name="fontNameMapping"> >>> <map> >>> <entry key="ComicSansMS" value="ArialMT"/> >>> </map> >>> </property> >>> </bean> >>> <bean id="fontArrayFactory" >>> class="com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFontArrayFactory"> >>> <property name="fontDirs"> >>> <list> >>> <value>C:/myfonts</value> >>> <value>fonts</value> >>> <value>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts</value> >>> <value>C:/WINDOWS/FONTS</value> >>> </list> >>> </property> >>> <property name="extensions" value="ttf,otf"/> >>> <property name="ignoreUnreadable" value="true"/> >>> </bean> >>> </beans> >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Lari Hotari >>> >>> >>> >>> Bruno Lowagie (iText) wrote: >>> > >>> > new2pdf wrote: >>> >> Is there a better way of doing this? >>> > >>> > That's not a question I can answer in only a few lines. >>> > Due to lack of time, I have to pass on this question for now. >>> > Maybe somebody else can explain how to remove fonts >>> > (although that's always a very delicate matter). >>> > br, >>> > Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. 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