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>>You should not need to look inside the truetyoe font for this. The PDF >>should have a set of commands of the format >>(DUMMY)TJ >>or >>(xyz)TJ >>or >>(\x04\x05)TJ The text is in trhe form (\x04\x05)TJ >>The encoding settings allow you to convert these indices into text >>values. Depending on the file, this encoding will be derived from CMAP, >>encoding, differences. Sometimes, the indices will look the same as the >>text (ie Standard encoding). >>Some PDF files do not contain enough information to extract text - just >>display it (certain versions of Ghostscript for example). The font descriptor doesn't include CAMp neither encoding neither differences table >>My hunch is that you have not allowed for the differences table or the >>text is not extractable. If you send me the file I will have a quick >>look. I'm not producing the file and i've got no control over the production process >>The links I pointed to give you all the documentation. Basically you >>need to extract all the data from several different subtables and use >>that to build up a set of cubic points which define the glyph. Are you >>sure you would not be better off using some off the shelf software for >>this. What language are you working in? I'm not understanding what i should use to parse the fontfile2 data. I just need to see waht you can see when you double click a .TTF file in windows. Is anything out there for this? Can i build something using Freetype lib? To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
