Hi,
Albie Janse van Rensburg schrieb: > Andreas Lehmkühler wrote on 16/10/2009 01:04 PM: >> Gesendet: Fr, 16. Okt 2009 Von: Albie Janse van Rensburg<albie....@gmail.com> >> >>> Problem: instead of letters, I only see little blocks! I would guess >>> there's an encoding of some sort needed. >>> >> That issue is probably related to [1], if your document uses a embedded >> subset as font. Check the font properties of your pdf with another pdf >> reader like acrobat, kpdf, ... If not, it could be an also known issue with >> the encoding. >> >> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-490 >> >> >> BR >> Andreas Lehmkühler > > I see. I am using PDFs generated by Crystal Reports in a different > application, and it is embedding Arial and Arial,Bold in the PDF. What > can I do about this? The referenced page seems to treat it as a bug, > does that mean there is no workaround? AFAIK there isn't any workaround. You should have a look at Crystal Reports. I don't know that tool in detail but perhaps there are some options concerning the creation of pdfs escapcially the usage of fonts? BR Andreas Lehmkühler
