See the thread "Bug in font subsetting" opened by the same poster. In short,
it's a bug with cff subsets that was only exposed in Acrobat 9.
Paulo
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Storer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 5:42 PM
To: Post all your questions about iText here
Subject: [iText-questions] Using OpenType font with IDENTITY_H: Characters
Vanish. Font expert help needed.
No, I don't think the problem has anything to do with licensing... That
was just my stream-of-consciousness debugging-in-email writing style.
It's not a licensing problem. It's not a particular font vendor. It's
not all opentype fonts.
As far as I can tell, it's completely random. Oh, I seriously doubt it
is, but I cannot find anything that provides rhyme or reason to the
problem.
Someone with a much better understanding of font technologies than I
could probably be of more help. Paulo?
--Mark Storer
Senior Software Engineer
Cardiff.com
import legalese.Disclaimer;
Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null;
> -----Original Message-----
> From: qqzx2kp [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 5:00 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Using OpenType font with
> IDENTITY_Hdoesn'twork
>
>
> Hi,
>
> By "this type", I didn't mean OpenType, rather some unknown
> characteristic that makes it not work in iText. If I knew how
> to tell people what sort of fonts to avoid (without having to
> write a program using iText) it would go a long way to
> solving my problem.
>
> Are you saying that the problem is with the metadata that
> says if the font is embeddable (since the use of IDENTITY-H
> requires the embedding of a subset)? This might be something
> I could follow up - though I thought iText gave an error if
> you try to do embedding that isn't allowed.
>
> I've been toying with the idea of telling people to avoid
> OpenType and stick to TrueType, but I'm loathe to do this
> without solid evidence. Does anyone out there have a reason
> why this would be justifiable (or not)?
>
> Thanks for your responses, Mark.
> ================
>
>
>
> > A more logical conclusion would be that iText doesn't support this
> > type of font.
>
> Only it does support that type of font. See, look. Our app
> renders PDF via iText... I'll pick an open type font from my
> system, throw some non-ascii characters in, and... Err...
> Crap... But but...
>
> Okay, some OT fonts work fine, some don't. Ah! "Lucida Sans", the
> first font I tried, has a blank "font embeddability" column
> in the win7 view of c:/windows/fonts. Monotype Corsiva
> Italic on the other hand, the one that worked, has the word
> "installable" instead. The only other font on my system with
> no font embeddability entry is... "Arial". Ouch.
> But Arial works given some non-ascii text. Bah!
>
> So much for that theory. "Lucida Sans" came up empty, but
> "Lucida Sans Unicode" was fine... And both are OpenType fonts
> from the same company.
>
> After further experimentation, I see no rhyme or reason here.
> Some OT fonts are fine. Some aren't.
>
> --Mark Storer
> Senior Software Engineer
> Cardiff.com
>
> import legalese.Disclaimer;
> Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null;
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