There are steps converting text to curve in adobe acrobat pro. You can google it. Or you can look at www.ehow.com/how_5692578_convert-fonts-curves-acrobat.html
Maybe PDF Box team can reverse engineer it? Chin Khun Sent from my BlackBerry® via Smartfren EVDO Network -----Original Message----- From: Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:39:45 To: <users@pdfbox.apache.org> Reply-To: users@pdfbox.apache.org Subject: Re: How to convert a text to curve? Hi, unfortunately I don't know of a processing lib handling that task. All the solutions I know of are dealing with that topic when the PDF is originally created. There are some manual ways e.g. using Acrobat or Illustrator. BR Maruan Am 24.09.2013 um 18:21 schrieb daijun <16360...@qq.com>: > Thank you Maruan Sahyoun. You help me a lot. > Do you any other PDF tools can convet text to a curve? > d.j. > > > > > ------------------ Original ------------------ > From: "Maruan Sahyoun";<sahy...@fileaffairs.de>; > Date: Tue, Sep 24, 2013 11:46 PM > To: "users"<users@pdfbox.apache.org>; > > Subject: Re: How to convert a text to curve? > > > > Hi, > > converting text to a curve is a major effort. There is no specific function > for that in PDFBox. But you could e.g. set a permission in PDF to disallow > text extraction > http://pdfbox.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/encryption/AccessPermission.html > > BR > > Maruan Sahyoun > > Am 24.09.2013 um 17:10 schrieb daijun <16360...@qq.com>: > >> Dears, >> >> >> I want to convert a text in a pdf to a curve. i.e. convert a text such as >> "hello" to a pen curve "hello"(change to token c) so that the text can not >> be copied. >> >> >> Thank you in advance! >> >> >> d.j.