On Aug 22, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Robert Baruch wrote:
> Here's my situation: I'm using PDFBox to parse a PDF file and grab
> the text out of it. With each span of text, I get the postscript
> font name and the font size. So far, so good.
>
OK.
> Next, I will change some fonts without changing size or style. For
> example, Times New Roman Bold Italic becomes Courier New Bold
> Italic, or perhaps Arial Bold Italic. I'm not hardcoding this font
> mapping.
>
That's a REALLY BAD IDEA!
Remember that PDF is NOT a reflowable text format, so that your new
document will NOT look the same, will break lines and pages at various
different places, etc.
Also, it won't work properly with non-Roman text in many case...
> So what I need to do is extract the style of the font from the
> postscript name, then I can apply the style to whatever font I want.
> The problem is, how do I get the style from the postscript name?
>
You have to basically come up with a very complex heuristic. There
is no standard methodology. And whatever you do - will only work on
the fonts you;ve seen or follow some standard nomenclature. It will
NEVER work for all :(.
Leonard
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