sorry I meaned I use PdfContentByte.setFontAndSize(BaseFont,size).... and
then PdfContentByte.showText(text)
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Nhia Nhia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> thanks for answering,
>
> I use the PdfContentByte.showText(BaseFont,size) and I create the font with
> BaseFont(file,...), so I need to create the font with
> BaseFont(PRIndirectReference (reader of original pdf), num)) and I would
> have the font data ?? because currently I search in my system a file with
> the same FontName of the PostScriptName of the font from the original
> pdf....
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>> On Sep 23, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Laura Cobos wrote:
>> > I need to know if is it possible to extract with itext the stream
>> > object of a Type 3 font and the stream object of a XForm (I suppose
>> > the same method would be correct for both). I know how scan the
>> > PdfDictionary keys but not the object where is the stream....
>> >
>> I assume you mean a Form XObject...
>>
>> Yes, you can certainly extract their streams and process them. You
>> just need to get the correct parent dictionaries...
>>
>> Also, don't forget about Patterns and Annotation Appearances...they
>> are also content streams...
>>
>>
>> > Currently I can rewrite de pdf if it use Type 1 fonts, but in some
>> > cases the letters are not identical to the original letters. It
>> > seems like some of the "copied" letters had more thickness, but only
>> > a bit more, so if you compare the pdf it seems like the copied
>> > letters would be shifted a little.
>> > Is it possible that even I have made the original pdf with a font
>> > file store in my computer and I try to rewrite it reading the
>> > content stream and using the same font file and writing the same
>> > text, some characteristics of the font like Descent could change
>> > when you create the pdf instead of using the Descent in the .afm
>> > file...?
>> >
>> You MUST use the EXACT SAME font data as found in the original
>> PDF...Substitution of any fashion will create a non-equivalent document.
>>
>> Also, how do you plan to deal with TrueType and OpenType fonts?
>> What about CID fonts?
>>
>> Leonard
>>
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