On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Peter, > > Am 13.05.2013 um 19:44 schrieb Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]>: > > > Thanks for answering - any help is valuable. > > > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > > I assume the fontWeight must do something! Does it create the font-fill > in > > a grey scale (or colour scale)? Or does it fill in the font with lines? > > > Yes it does something see [ > http://pdfbox.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/font/PDFont.html#setWidths%28java.util.List%29]. > But you would expect that the setting in the font file/the width table for > the chars it what is used in the pdf when it was created to set the text > positions for example. So for parsing the width is part of the pdf. For > creation setting the width is useful. > That is WIDTH not WEIGHT! (And yes, there is one publisher whose PDF do not have character widths :-( ) -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
