On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Peter, > > which version of PDFBox are you using? If you are still on 1.7 I'd suggest > you upgrade to 1.8.1 as there were several enhancements to TrueType > handling. > > Thanks, Yes I was on 1.7 and I'll upgrade and report. However these fonts are so non-conformant I am only semi-optimistic. Assuming it doesn't work, is there still a way of determining bold? P. > BR > Maruan > > Am 13.05.2013 um 10:55 schrieb Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]>: > > > I am dealing with a number of (highly non-standard) fonts and wish to > > determine whether the font is bold (and probably other attributes). The > > fontDescriptors are sometimes missing and often return null of zero > values > > (e.g. for fontDescriptor.getFontWeight() or fontDescriptor.isForceBold(). > > Yet the font displays as bold (presumably because the boldness is encoded > > in the glyph information). > > > > Are there ways (I will gladly accept heuristics) for determining that a > > font is bold when this cannot be determined from the font descriptor of > the > > font name, which occasionally has a ".B" but often does not. > > > > At present I simply compile a list of fonts, so any help welcomed. > > > > > > -- > > Peter Murray-Rust > > Reader in Molecular Informatics > > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > > University of Cambridge > > CB2 1EW, UK > > +44-1223-763069 > -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
