Nirmal Fernando wrote: > How can I retrieve Fonts of an existing PDF? Is there a way in iText to > read the fonts embedded and replace them with a different type of font??
This isn't necessarily impossible, but in most cases it's very difficult and in some cases it's very unwise. For instance: what if only a subset of the font is present in the PDF? Then you'll never be able to retrieve the full font, and will you replace this subset with a full font or a corresponding subset? Do you know anything about encoding? Do you know anything about CMaps? Do you know anything about the differences in metrics? For instance: the width of the words "Foobar Film Festival" is 178.74 pt in Helvetica, but only 157.90 in Times-Roman for the same font size (12). In other words: if you replace Helvetica with Times-Roman, you'll screw up your entire layout. Remember that PDF is NOT a Word processing format; every glyph is positioned at a predictable location. If you want to change the font, you need to do the layout all over again. That is: recreate the PDF from scratch. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
