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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?


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