In my project there is a function to produce a PDF file based on a custom template for each customer. in order to do that I use SelectPDF, then add in ASP.NET Razor files and exporting it as a PDF. sometimes I'm asked for specific fonts, so I add them to my .LESS file for the template using #font-face.
now I have a task to create a PDF that may be later converted to a PowerPoint file via Adobe. the problem is that Adobe doesn't know how to handle the custom fonts I use.
for example, this is what I get with the PDF:
and this is what happens after I convert it via Adobe:
is it keep the custom fonts from the PDF export to the PowerPoint file
generally for such a font to be supported it should be 100% embeded as a font not subset as a range of characters.
Then the Full TTF name should be in the fontlist
If the pdf2pptx converter is doing its job correctly, and has access for fallback, it should then use RockwellNova, as seen here without embed and with embed
however since PPTX rarely embed the fonts it will be down to the system substitution when viewing the pptx.
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I run into problems with embedded (or not embedded?) fonts in PDFs of ggplots created with ggsave and linked into illustrator files, for some reason on windows only.
For my workflow I link plots into illustrator where I create figures with several plots. I don't embed the plots because in case something changes in R the plots are automatically updated when Illustrator is reopened.
So the problem is that when trying to save such files I always get an error message that saving is not possible because the Font "^1" could not be embedded. I can save the illustrator files when I disable PDF compatibility but cannot save them as PDF, which is what I need.
I don't get this problem if I use ggsave(plot, device=cairo_pdf), but with cairo_pdfI run into other problems (e.g. with geom_rangeframe).
In previous posts I read about an issue with the dingbats or AdobePiStd font, but using ggsave(plot, useDingpats=F) does not solve it. Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?
After further research I could solve the problem with the embedFonts function. The the problem seems to be that the fonts are not embedded by default. I wrote a small function to use instead of ggsave to automatically embed the fonts into the same PDF file:
ggsave_embed<-function(fileN, ...){
ggsave(fileN, ...)
embedFonts(file=fileN, outfile = fileN)
}
# example usage:
ggsave_embed("myfile.pdf", myPlot)
Is it possible to replace subset embedded fonts by non-subset embedded fonts in PDF by any mechanism (for example using iText)?
The goal is to write some java routine which will takes an input PDF with subset fonts and outputs a PDF with fully embedded fonts, with a full copy of the entire character set of a fonts are stored in the PDF.
Any advice would have helped me a lot.
Using the following code to generate thumbnails from PDFs (ColdFusion 8):
<cfpdf
action="thumbnail"
source="#LOCAL.PathToMyPDF#"
destination="#LOCAL.ImageDestination#"
format="png"
scale="100"
resolution="high"
overwrite="true"
pages="1" />
Sometimes it works great and generates a beautiful PNG representation of the first page. However, many times, it ends up creating a PNG with none of the text that's in the PDF, or with the text mangled or background images out of arrangement.
Is there any way to prevent this? I'm open to using a non-commercial java library, if necessary.
Without looking into this too deep, I would think you are having a font problem.
Try to run that bit of code with this parameter nofonts = "true" (which removes font styling) and see if you get your text (not styled).
If that works then you may need to register your fonts in Coldfusion (so Coldfusion has access to the fonts library). If you are not sure what fonts your PDF uses then you can check file, properties and click the font tab to see the fonts your PDF uses.
Check this link for more explanation on Coldfusion and fonts.
Again, I am not sure about your server and font set up because it wasn't mentioned in your post, so this is my best guess for you...
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I have a small trouble with Japanese symbols when I save rasterized PDF document into PNG. I tried to convert PDF file into the PNG with help of pitron.PDF.Rasterizer in my Windows Store application. Another files with embedded fonts are converted without problems, but this file does not contain embedded fonts and looks horrible.
Thanks, any help will be appreciated.
Please check that Аpitron.Core.Winrt.winmd is placed at the same folder as Аpitron.PDF.Rasterizer.dll.
Your PDF file requires external fonts and they could not be loaded at runtime without the types declared in metadata.
I want to replace the font embedded in an existing PDF file programmatically (with iText).
iText itself does not seem to provide any data model for glyphs and fonts, but I believe it can let me retrieve and update the binary stream that contains the font.
It's OK even if I don't know which glyph is associated to which font - what I want to do is just to replace them. To be precise, I want to embold all glyphs in a PDF document.
Replacing fonts in rendering time is not an option because the output must be PDF with all information preserved as is.
Is there anyone who has done this before with iText or any other PDF libraries?
PDF files define a set of fonts (ie F0, F1, F2) and then define these separately so you could theoretically rewrite the entry for F0. You would have to ensure the 2 fonts have the same spacing (or you will have to rewrite the PDF as well), and probably hack the PDF manually.