On 8/06/2013 18:51, Steven Whatmore wrote:
I would highly prefer not to have to render the PDF twice (one with embedded fonts and one without) strictly for this print vendor. Even if I do render without the embedded fonts --
That's a bad idea in general.
I am not 100% sure when I merge these PDF(s) together that the resulting output will be of the correct format (i.e. the fonts are required for the proper presentation -- barcode fonts).
This is useful information: can I assume that the size of the barcode font isn't that big?
I haven't tried it yet but is it possible to remove the fonts from the individual PDF(s) during the copy phase and attach them at the new document level during the PDFSmartCopy processing.
Removing the fonts from the individual PDFs could work, but it shouldn't be your first choice.
Are you adding the content that requires barcode fonts with iText? If so, you've noticed that iText will subset the font by default.You can change this default with bf.setSubset(false); where bf is a BaseFont instance.
This will cause the individual files to be bigger (for fonts such as Arial, your files will be bloated), but the composed file (the one you're creating with PdfSmartCopy) will be much smaller because you won't have all these small different subsets to deal with.
This is what I meant with: you need to give us more context if you want actual help.
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