That's probably it. If the font is subset you won't have any problem and you can call PdfReader.shuffleSubsetNames() just in case. The big problem is with full font, embedding or not. Generally the width array will only contain the widths for the characters used. If the fonts have the same name and different width arrays you may end up with zero width or worst applied to some characters.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Leonard Rosenthol > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 6:28 PM > To: Philipp Engel; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] character problem merging pdfs > > At 12:21 PM 8/22/2005, Philipp Engel wrote: > >I want to merge some PDFs (arround 1000) into one large PDF. > >This works quite well, except that some characters in the resulting > >PDF are replaced with a symbol that looks like a small, non-filled > >box, something like this _ > > I suspect that you are seeing a combination of two problems. > > 1) Your PDFs use a mix of non-embedded, embedded and subset versions > of THE SAME FONT. > > 2) Acrobat can't handle #1 - and uses the "wrong" font... > > Your best bet is to install some software that "fixes up" > the PDFs prior to merging. > > > Leonard > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > Leonard Rosenthol > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> > PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) > 215-938-0880 (fax) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development > Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * > Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * > http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
