Use "Arial Bold" as the font name instead of just "Arial" should do the trick...
Leonard
From: David Thielen [mailto:da...@windward.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Can't edit bold arial in Acrobatafter creating
PDF
Ok, I know this is a dumb question but how do I do that under iText?
Thanks - dave
David Thielen
303-499-2544 x1185
720-352-0676 (cell)
From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:lrose...@adobe.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Can't edit bold arial in Acrobatafter creating
PDF
Don't use Font.BOLD - instead, pick the font manually.
Leonard
On 2/17/09 2:52 PM, "David Thielen" <da...@windward.net> wrote:
Hi;
I understand that. The two probelems we are having are:
We call FontFactory.getFont("Arial", baseFont.IDENTITY_H, true, 12.0,
Font.BOLD); and the BaseFont it returns has a fontName of "Arial-BoldMT". So
the first question is how can we set the font to Arial rather than ArialMT and
Arial,Bold rather than Arial-BoldMT?
Second, when I use the text touch up tool on my system, the same system that
did the above conversion to ArialMT - it tells me it cannot find ArialMT and
will use Arial instead. Si it's like iText does a name mapping that Acrobat
cannot do?
Third, when our customer goes to use the text touchup tool, she gets a message
saying Acrobat cannot find a substitute font for the bold. It does do ok for
the non-bold.
??? - thanks - dave
David Thielen
303-499-2544 x1185
720-352-0676 (cell)
From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:lrose...@adobe.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:43 AM
To: Post all your questions about iText here
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Can't edit bold arial in Acrobatafter creating
PDF
Because the font specified in the PDF is "Arial-BoldMT" NOT "Arial Bold" - two
different fonts...
Leonard
From: David Thielen [mailto:da...@windward.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:29 AM
To: Post all your questions about iText here
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Can't edit bold arial in Acrobat after creating
PDF
Here you go. Acrobat ver 9 running on XP w/ SP-3.
thank you - dave
________________________________
From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:lrose...@adobe.com]
Sent: Mon 2/16/2009 11:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Can't edit bold arial in Acrobat after creating
PDF
Please provide a sample PDF the demonstrates the problem.
Also, what version of Acrobat is being used on what OS platform?
Leonard
From: David Thielen [mailto:da...@windward.net]
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 12:00 PM
To: itext
Subject: [iText-questions] Can't edit bold arial in Acrobat after creating PDF
Hi;
We're getting this issue from one of our customers. The PDFs we create use
unicode for all text so all fonts are embedded. We build the PDF from a Word
document.
I open new document in Word.
Add some text, choose Arial in the fonts dropdown list.
Add an other line of text, choose Arial in the fonts dropdown list and select
the "bold" button.
Save the document as an RTF
Create a PDF.
Open the PDF in Acrobat Reader. The font types are now Arial-MT and
Arial-BoldMT. And it are embedded subsets.
When I open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Professional, I can perfectly add some
text to the default Arial text. When I want to add some text to the bold Arial
text, I get an error message that the font is a subset and that no compatible
system font can be found. Which is strange because I have ARIALBD.TTF in my
Fonts folder.
Any ideas?
thanks - dave
--
Leonard Rosenthol
PDF Standards Architect
Adobe Systems Incorporated
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