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On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 14:22, Nicola Righetti wrote: > PDFdev is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > _____________________________________________________________ > > > I've got a PDF file with and embedded truetype font in it. > > The font uses a proprietary encoding and has no encoding table. I'm > looking > > for a way to view the gliphs in the font so i can construct the > > translation/table. I've tried to save the fontfile2 data as a TFF file but > i > > get an error opening it. Which is the correct way to do this? > > Regards > > Nicola > > > >>If its got no CMAP table, I usually use the character index on a 1 to 1 > >>mapping. > > Sorry but i do not understand where i can find this table. IN the TTF file > or in the PDF font descriptor? > > >>What program is generating the PDF? > > Creator: pscript5.dll > Producer: GNU Ghostscript 7.06 > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html > > The truetype font has a number of subtables. These include a GLYF table (the points/instructions used to draw the glyph) and CMAP table (telling you which glyf is used to display which character). Useful references are:- http://developer.apple.com/fonts/TTRefMan/index.html http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ Also worth a look is http://www.freetype.org Regards, MArk To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
