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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:09 AM, cybevnm <cybe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to generate a pdf document, which contains strings in several
> languages. Set of the languages (i.e. set of required characters) can be
> determined only at generation phase, so I've decided to use a font, which
> contains as much as possible characters (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Unifont in my case), to represent any
> possible input language during the rendering of the document by a pdf
> viewer.
> The GNU Unifont isn't c*ommon at clients' workstations (which is mostly
> under the MS Windows control), so I should to do some form of font
> embedding. But I have conflicting requirement - documents *should be as
> small as possible, so full font embedding isn't an option (+ 3 Mbytes of
> overhead per document is too much for me).
> I think that only possible option in my situation is to embed only those
> glyphs which actually used in document - this is what I mean under 'font
> subsetting' term.
> Is it possible to make this using PoDoFo ? Or maybe there are another ways
> to satisfy the requirements ?
>
>
>
> On 02/18/2013 11:22 PM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>
> You don't actually subset a CID font - since there is no such thing as a
> CID font file.
>
> A CID font is really a special way to encode/store font data in a PDF file
> when having to deal with Unicode-based fonts. You can create a CID font
> from a TTF or OTF font as part of subsetting it - though it's not required.
>
> So backing this upŠ
>
> What are you trying to achieve with PoDoFo that is blocking you?
>
> Leonard
>
>
> On 2/18/13 2:42 PM, "cybevnm" <cybe...@gmail.com> <cybe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi!
> After some searching through the podofo code I suspect that subsetting
> for the CID fonts isn't implemented (PdfFontCID doesn't implement
> AddUsedSubsettingGlyphs etc.) and can be done just for the PdfFontType1
> fonts (which doesn't support unicode). But there are mystic (for me)
> PdfFontTTFSubset and PdfFontCache::GetFontSubset.
> So, is CID fonts (unicode-aware) subsetting supported and what are
> PdfFontTTFSubset and PdfFontCache::GetFontSubset for ?
> Thanks!
>
>
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