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We are using PDFBox to generate PDFs in a very simple way and only including fonts available from the PDType1Font class (e.g. PDType1Font.HELVETICA). The PDFs we are generating are really only including a few title/subtitles, text, and bulleted/numbered lists. Everything is fine when we use what is probably in the standard Latin alphabet, and we've had some troubles with special characters that don't fit in there such as ≥ and ≤. We've dealt with that by simply replacing "≤" with "<=" and so on, but we're starting to use languages that don't use Latin script and so we can no longer replace out way out of the problem. For example, I need to be able to put Chinese characters into a PDF we generate. So let's take the text "中國" which is just the word "China" in Traditional Chinese script. First, how can I find out that the character isn't going to fit into the font that I'm currently using? Should I do it for every character we try to put into the page, or should we just catch exceptions when we try to write the text to the page and then scan at that point? I'm trying to avoid writing hideously inefficient code to handle these situations. Second, once I know that I need to choose another font... how do I know which font to choose? Should I keep a mapping of Unicode code point ranges and the best fonts to use for them? Finally, what fonts are actually available to PDFBox? How do I add new ones? I have a lot of control over the environment and I get to see failing conversions and intervene, so some trial and error is okay for each new situation. The recipients of our PDFs are file-size sensitive, so I'd only want to include (bundle) a font in a PDF if it was absolutely necessary to include the font itself. If we can get away with including a *reference* to the font in the PDF and telling these recipients "sorry, if you want to read the Chinese PDFs we send, you'd better make sure you have font X installed" then that's okay with me, too. What suggestions to people have for doing all of the above? Thanks, - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - https://www.enigmail.net/ iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEMmKgYcQvxMe7tcJcHPApP6U8pFgFAlxSVeMACgkQHPApP6U8 pFgQew/8CS1YmJs27QrD+WGV/Zcn2RAeG/ZVs5w3huMwKLY8NfXQ4Vdp3o+s+B7u 2wn9m2LJVXuWT2dfDDQzZDIfBgfqZI5sl4+hBDSos9gEVV3ddWcox1A0YSTCy5VW DAlDZSscEdIDyMIVz2E1dQi6/p35MrSyJ/Xom6Tbnvt3ZHAp87GHZ1rB8XXrtVZS itVE756hJ59o4tZJoM9cH1NH1w9PuLLJyrGpCsc1oTgcZTI0jXxiIC9Q4GvLbLbO yVdExITzTVflLAo0BRGOJkb5IF1OyVf51HHas1+DMEvtSXY5J89e1dFnyo1dFxMU MXJ5rKh/FQvJtC5Lf9QoQ3tV8r3qyWv0wc8FVgMcLUA9DHbx7QtcydQwoKf3poJz ymlOJWH2b4d5uLbSfdjr9Nof4IRNH504cwjoth3eor3Ra/SCaem2ZrTQhY6XzoF1 vCpZChDIKzDvI7NDGbcaNvzzezNmlbdRdh3Ekwk1E/vwfrmtb4VmW7sW9PICP1o6 80sqydy6qIMtQNjr1EK55VIvD4+e10SwYWhcZinsByQkYZpoRjKWQ9kTNk10vvwk cLB8bVeLPHC7nLe4FqJe4y3+hWBfGP25O2VdnNU1sjd4lbzQhNIgCMj0n+6ziDuU Nh9vDuKRXEIIXHZUxrN2Td3hOw96wKHqEQ8RtxYpuGWABx4wIWw= =aMPi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
