Hi Leonard.

Thanks for answering.

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:59:32 +0100, Leonard Rosenthol
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you are doing hidden text on the OCR (which it appears you are),
> then you do NOT need to embed the font _IF_ you only use "Text Render
> Mode 3" when you draw the text.

Okay, that's interesting and good to know, but:

1) My code currently throws an exception because I don't embed a font. This
happens in the following part, in the call to SetFontAndSize.
I need to call that method, because I want my text to be (roughly) the size
of the OCR region of the word, so that selecting the text gives the "right"
graphical boundaries. I understand that for this method I _have_ to embed
the font (it cannot know if I later on render the text invisible). If
there's a better way to have a text information with a given region, please
share it!

My relevant code for just that (embedding the invisible text with the right
size):
>>  content.BeginText();
>>  // EXCEPTION BELOW
>>  content.SetFontAndSize(font, fontSize);
>>  // EXCEPTION ABOVE
>> content.SetTextRenderingMode(
>>   PdfContentByte.TEXT_RENDER_MODE_INVISIBLE);
>> content.SetTextMatrix(
>>   (float)(ocrWord.Rectangle.Location.X * horizontalScaling),
>>   pageImage.ScaledHeight - (float)(ocrWord.Rectangle.Bottom *
>>   verticalScaling));
>>  content.ShowText(ocrWord.Data);
>>  content.EndText();

2) I still don't get why the font is not embedded with the snippet below.
What could I do to _actually_ embed the font? Am I missing something here?
Am I (quite certainly I am..) doing something stupid?

My relevant code for the font creation, which doesn't seem to embed it
though.
>> // POSSIBLE CAUSE HERE:
>> // This is the font I'm using. It's only used for invisible rendering
>> // anyway The "embedded" parameter is true, but Visual Studio shows
>> // me that the resulting BaseFont instance's "embedded" member is
>> // set to false when I debug this?
>> BaseFont font = BaseFont.CreateFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA,
>>   BaseFont.WINANSI,
>>   pdfAcompliant);


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