Dear Tilman.
I tried to remove the font file item from the font descriptor, but apparently
this has no effect in the generated file
PDFontDescriptor fontDescriptor = pdFont.getFontDescriptor();
COSDictionary cosObj = fontDescriptor.getCOSObject();
Set<COSName> fontNameSet = new HashSet<>();
for(COSName name : cosObj.keySet())
{
if(name.getName().startsWith("FontFile"))
{
fontNameSet.add(name);
}
}
for(COSName name : fontNameSet)
{
cosObj.removeItem(name);
}
Fabio Vassallo
Product Development (CIS)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tilman Hausherr [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2017 11:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Embedded vs. non-embedded fonts (PDFBox & iText)
Am 06.04.2017 um 13:37 schrieb Vassallo, Fabio:
> Thank you for you answer, Tilman.
>
> As I would like to try to remove the embedded fonts from the PDF file, Is it
> possible to do it using a PDFBox code?
Yes; from a PDFont object, then get the font descriptor, then can call
.getCOSObject() on it and then manipulate from there, i.e. remove FontFile /
FontFile2 / FontFile3 from the font descriptor.
Tilman
>
> Fabio
>
>> It might be possible to create your own different encoding as
>> described in page 264 of the PDF specification, and delete the
>> embedded font later. I haven't tested it and won't do it, and here's
>> why: you should embed your fonts. Not embedding might result in weird
>> effects with some viewers, e.g. getting different glyphs, squares or
>> nothing at all. So it would be several hours of work to create a bad
>> PDF file with some code that is hard to understand.
>>
>> Are you aware that you can embed subsets? These are much smaller than
>> full fonts. Use PDType0Font.load().
>> Tilman
>
> Fabio Vassallo
> Product Development (CIS)
>
>
> Würth Phoenix S.r.l.
> via Kravogl 4, 39100 Bolzano
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tilman Hausherr [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 6:08 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Embedded vs. non-embedded fonts (PDFBox & iText)
>
> See my answer from 10.3.2017.
>
> Tilman
>
> Am 04.04.2017 um 12:01 schrieb Vassallo, Fabio:
>> Good morning.
>>
>> I'm currently using PDFBox to build documents for the company I’m
>> working for, and I need to print strings with generic character, also
>> non in the WinAnsiEncoding range (e.g. “ł”).
>>
>> And I shouldn’t embed fonts in the PDF documents.
>>
>> If I use the internal PDFBox fonts (e.g. PDType1Font.HELVETICA)
>> apparently no fonts are than embedded in the document.
>>
>> So I assume that the document, when displayed, refers to Fonts
>> present in the PC (Arial?); nevertheless
>> PDPageContentStream.showText() throws an IllegalArgumentException for such
>> “special” characters.
>>
>> Using iText I could use the following call:
>>
>> *Font myFont = com.itextpdf.text.FontFactory.getFont(name, size,
>> style, color);*
>>
>> Using variable “myFont”, now I can refer to the font with no font
>> embedding, and I can use also non-WinAnsiEncoding characters.
>>
>> Is there any way or workaround in PDFBox to generate a file with no
>> embedded files and with “special” characters?
>>
>> If not, will it be possible in one of the next PDFBox releases?
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance,
>>
>> Fabio Vassallo
>>
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