You would expect to see something in the font name that indicates boldness, like "bold", "heavy", etc., but that's not 100% reliable.
Cheers, E. On 5/13/13 12:02 PM, "Maruan Sahyoun" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect, RSI Content Solutions "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 512.554.9368 www.rsicms.com www.rsuitecms.com Book: DITA For Practitioners, from XML Press, http://xmlpress.net/publications/dita/practitioners-1/
