Re: [iText-questions] Itextsharp PDF Parsing Font Requirement

2015-01-06 Thread iText mailing list
On 1/6/2015 6:04 AM, Ajit Makvana wrote: why there is need of font files/[FontName.afm]/ in itextsharp library Those files contain font metrics (AFM = Adobe Font Metrics). They are needed to calculate the dimensions of snippets of text (height, width). The 14 AFM files shipped with iTextSharp

[iText-questions] Itextsharp PDF Parsing Font Requirement

2015-01-05 Thread Ajit Makvana
why there is need of font files* [FontName.afm]* in itextsharp library and without those font files can we extract text from PDF files and for newly introduced fontface itextsharp is useful to extract text from PDF or Not? if not then why..?