Thanks for the feedback Bruno. Boy this stuff is complicated :(
I must confess, I didn't have a clue what a Descendant font was after reading your reply. However.... Since your email I have looked more deeply at our actual file (you may recall this is still under embargo so I am using several small test files - the one not including the FontFile is one of these test files). Using Rups I can clearly see our actual file contains Descendant fonts (in particular: Wingdings 3). Using the listing 16.3 page 530) these are identified as 'nofontdescriptor' I believe this is because the Font dictionary containing the FontFile2 is preceded by a DescendantFonts dictionary. If this is always true I can easily modify listing to correctly identify - perhaps someone could confirm if my understanding is correct? However, I can now confirm that in the test file (attached to previous posting) the font I am questioning (CourierNewPSMT) is not a Descendant font - well, it certainly does not appear to be identified as one in Rups. Kind regards William William Bell T: +44 7795 463646 E: wrb...@btinternet.com -----Original Message----- From: 1T3XT BVBA [mailto:i...@1t3xt.info] Sent: 02 October 2011 06:41 To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] FontDescriptor without FontFile dictionary On 2/10/2011 3:50, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > That doesn't sounds like a valid PDF file - but you'd have to post it > for us to confirm. Maybe it's a composite font with the font descriptor in a descendant font. I don't think that's covered in the example. However: inspecting the file with RUPS would easily reveal these cases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php