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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Martin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 17:13
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PDFdev] Type 3 Fonts in PDF
>
>
>
> I think iText doesn't actually generate TrueType font subsets, it
> copies over portions of an original - which means that you have to have
> access to the original TrueType file, which you often don't have in
> Java (unless you force users to provide it).
>
iText does generate TrueType font subsets. You must have the
original font file when the PDF is generated, of course.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
> jeff
>
>
> On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 09:26 AM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>
> > At 08:21 AM 7/10/2003 -0500, Jeff Martin wrote:
> >> I've written a Java PDF generation app/library (reportmill) and for
> >> text support I wrote what I thought was clever code to encode font
> >> subsets as Type 3 fonts
> >
> > Older versions of Ghostscript did the same thing - and it's
> > one reason why we try to move people up to GS7 or later as quickly as
> > possible!!
> >
> >> However, the Acrobat Reader renders these on the screen in a
> >> ridiculously blocky way,
> >
> > Adobe Reader 6 does a MUCH better job with Type 3 fonts.
> >
> >> which can be fixed if I can convince every user in the world to turn
> >> on their Preferences->Display->Smooth Line Art switch (does Adobe
> >> assume we're still using 25 Mhz machines? :-).
> >
> > Or upgrade to Reader 6 or you fix your code to not use Type 3
> > fonts...
> >
> >> The same text also renders fine to the printer or if zoomed up, and
> >> renders fine in other PDF viewers, such as Mac OS X Preview.
> >
> > Correct. The reason it looks nice in Mac OS X Preview was so
> > one of the engineers on the project could read some old SIGGRAPH
> > articles that were created with GS5 ;).
> >
> >> I guess I'll have to bite the bullet and write dynamic TrueType font
> >> file generation for my subsets,
> >
> > Another option would be to replace your PDF generation library
> > with something like iText (http://www.lowagie.com/iText) which already
> > knows how to do the TTF stuff (including subsetting) and have a quite
> > reasonable license.
> >
> > Leonard
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