Hi Peter, I don't think that it's possible to say that a font is bold wo the description of saying so. You could compare some of the characteristics of a glyph to make a decision e.g. if you have similar fonts. I'm not the expert on fonts though so maybe others are better suited to give a trustful answer.
BR Maruan Sahyoun Am 13.05.2013 um 17:04 schrieb Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]>: > I have now upgraded to 1.8.1 and am still unable to use PDFBox to determine > whether the font(s) are bold. I would be very grateful indeed if someone > could take a few minutes to see whether this is a problem with the fonts, > PDFBox or my usage. > > A typical PDF is at > > https://bitbucket.org/petermr/svg2xml-dev/src/abefe9960a8a/src/test/resources/pdfs/bmc/174.pdf > > (there are no copyright restrictions) and typical fonts (there are several > more) are: > "AdvOTce3d9a73" which I believe to be bold > and > "AdvOT56309c18.I" which I believe to be bold and italic > > Many thanks to anyone who can give help. > > P. > > > > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Peter Murray-Rust > Reader in Molecular Informatics > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069
