Comments on: Fonts in PDF files

By: RajeshVoruganti

RajeshVoruganti — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:30:01 +0000

Hi All
I am using iText 5.0 to generate the PDF file using java technology.but i got problem with when we have print that pdf file which is generate from iText.In that PDF file text not getting actual PDF file in ThermalPrint Printer i am using Zebra LP2844

Let me know if u have this overcome this problem

Please suggest me u r answer

Thank You
Rajesh Voruganti.

By: pramod

pramod — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:37:10 +0000

Did you find the solutions.
I am looking for the same Please let us know if you got the solutions.

Thanks,
Pramod

By: Laurens

Laurens — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:52:32 +0000

Most fonts are indeed copyrighted although there are large libraries of free fonts available on the web.

Extracting fonts from a PDF to use them for other projects isn’t only illegal but also very difficult to do (if not impossible). In most PDF files, just a subset of fonts is embedded. Only those characters that are used in the text are also embedded in the PDF. Even if you could extract such a font, you would only have an incomplete typeface with many characters missing.

By: himanshu

himanshu — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:43:35 +0000

please confirm:
can we copy fonts from 1 pdf to make another PDF to publish online? Do fonts are copyrighted?
for example can we use fonts of article pdf on http://www.sciencedirect.com in designing our own pdf files.

By: Laurens

Laurens — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:49:09 +0000

Font encoding seems to be a major issue with Indian Language fonts. Because of the wide range of Devnagari font formats, copying and pasting text seems to be a hit and miss affair. I have no experience with this but possibly a tool such as the one that can be found at http://www.fontsuvidha.com is a solution.

By: Daniyel

Daniyel — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:11:22 +0000

Thank you for this discussion. Can anyone speak to the issue of saving/printing/exporting pdf files from Illustrator, and indesign with regard to embedding/subsetting fonts? I see many students producing their pdfs in many ways, and I get various results. Sometimes the pdfs are still asking for fonts… illustrator and indesign do not have explicit places to specify how fonts are handled when generating pdfs. thank you for your time.

By: prashant

prashant — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:58:43 +0000

i have pdf containing devnagari texts.
fonts are embeded in pdf document
when i copy these texts from pdf an pest in other application any fonts are not matched.

By: Vicki Trzeciak

Vicki Trzeciak — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:51:26 +0000

We are looking for an Arial Font that is Type 1 postscript with .AFM and .PFB file versions that are embedded and editable. Do you know where I can purchase this font?

By: Subhash

Subhash — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:42:13 +0000

Hi,

This article gives very useful information. Thanks.

But I need some detailed information about how acrobat reader processes marathi ( devanagari ) font from Mangal.ttf. actual problem is I am building a demo web application using Java technology. Marathi data is entered database and retrieved back and shown correctly on HTML web pages but when a pdf report is generated, it misspells some half spelled chars like – शिवगंगा महाराष्ट्र are spelled as शविगंगा महाराष्‍ट्‍र ( I have typed it explicitly, actually when I tried to copy from pdf and paste, it pastes correctly in HTML text area / text box like शिवगंगा महाराष्ट्र ).

Can anyone expert / experienced programmer guide me please regarding which font / pdfFont, encoding and other parameters I should specify while building pdf.

Thanks in advance,
Subhash

By: Yuri

Yuri — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:13:26 +0000

Thanks for the outlining in PDF hint. Have been looking for that for a while. Work in Acrobat 7 too it turns out.