Am 14.03.2019 um 15:38 schrieb Kirk, Kenneth:
What I meant to ask was, what method can I use to specify a nonstandard font, 
i.e. Arial or MS Sans Serif without having to embed the font in the pdf.  I 
assume the viewer will find a substitute if the specified font is not present 
on the client machine.

PDFBox always embeds fonts, preferably as a subset. (The exception is Type 1 standard 14 fonts).

Not doing that is a bad practice puts your users at risk that their files are displayed poorly. A file displayed on one computer could look different on another.

Tilman




-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Rönnkvist <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 2:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: External: RE: Approximate Font

I posted this brief code and if you follow it, your questioned is answered. The 
program creates a form with the question on top of answer (groups) and having 
two different fonts for each line. The information is compared to determine the 
longest and then spaces the groups accordingly. Hope this helps.



https://stackoverflow.com/a/20779205/1579736



Thanks

Stefan Ronnkvist



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From: Kirk, Kenneth <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 1:54:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Approximate Font

I'm trying to find a simple way to approximate true type fonts without the need 
to embed the font into the document.  We have a document management system 
which create annotations as graphic overlays.  I need to take those overlays 
and place them as pdf objects on the document.  The document management client 
software allows the user to create text annotations using any of the true type 
fonts installed on the system.  How can I create a font description font that 
doesn't embed the font and let viewer handle it by approximating the closest 
font.

Kenneth D. Kirk
Information Systems Advisor
Document Management
Information Technology









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