> On 28 Jun 2016, at 08:36, Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de> wrote: > > I realize my answer from yesterday was possibly wrong, because a bold font > may have different metrics (glyph sizes) than his non-bold counterpart. That > would have to be checked first. > > Now if all files come from the same sources and have the same structure, you > could go through the font resources and change names like AAAAAD+DejaVuSans > to AAAAAD+DejaVuSans-Bold. Very dirty.
You could but I suspect that bold fonts too are going to still suffer from rendering problems at low DPI. -- John > Tilman > > >> Am 28.06.2016 um 14:06 schrieb Lachezar Dobrev: >> I am not expecting anything to do with the library code changing. >> I was hoping there is some bulk-font-change technique that I can do with >> the PDF after loading, so that text with normal font starts using the bold >> one. Like iterating the document tree and doing something with it before >> rendering the pages. >> >> 2016-06-27 19:39 GMT+03:00 Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de>: >> >>>> Am 27.06.2016 um 18:10 schrieb Lachezar Dobrev: >>>> >>>> Hey all, >>>> >>>> I need to print PDFs to images to be forwarded to a low-resolution >>>> printer (200 dpi). >>>> Printing works (Yay!), and the ability to specify colour space and >>>> resolution helps immensely. >>>> >>>> When reading the PDFs I get these error messages: >>>> >>>> VI 27, 2016 5:53:39 PM org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDCIDFontType2Font >>>> getawtFont >>>> INFO: Can't read the embedded font AAAAAC+DejaVuSans-Bold >>>> VI 27, 2016 5:53:39 PM org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDCIDFontType2Font >>>> getawtFont >>>> INFO: Using font DejaVu Sans Bold instead >>>> VI 27, 2016 5:53:39 PM org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDCIDFontType2Font >>>> getawtFont >>>> INFO: Can't read the embedded font AAAAAD+DejaVuSans >>>> VI 27, 2016 5:53:39 PM org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDCIDFontType2Font >>>> getawtFont >>>> INFO: Using font DejaVu Sans instead >>>> >>>> This looks like something I can live with (fonts being substituted), >>>> but >>>> I'm willing to work on that, since text is not Latin, and missing glyphs >>>> in >>>> system available fonts is a thing. >>>> >>>> >>>> However due to the low resolution, the fact that the printer is >>>> Black-And-White (not Gray-Scale!) much of the text becomes grainy and >>>> disconnected (thin parts of the letters missing), making the text >>>> extremely >>>> hard to read. >>>> >>>> Is there any way to make all fonts bold (or bold-er), so that the text >>>> (after being converted to black-and-white) would be easier to read when >>>> printed in low-resolution? I can not perform any post-rendering >>>> enhancements, because there are bar-codes in the printed content that >>>> become unreadable if smeared or thickened. >>>> >>>> I'm fixed to using PDFBox 1.8.1 (that's what's available in the >>>> project). >>>> >>>> There's nothing that can be done in PDFBox, as you are bound to a version >>> (and I assume you can't modify it) and there is no feature like you >>> describe. You could replace the font in the font directory but this would >>> likely have sideeffects on other applications. >>> >>> >>> Tilman >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
