Instead of a partial match for the name you could compile a list of all the
names of the bold variants of your fonts, and then compare the font name to
that list.

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 11:13 AM Hesham Gneady <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello ,
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> I am trying to extract the bold text for some PDF files, but some fail like
> this one:
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> https://www.dropbox.com/s/gh2zwdh3sl3isck/Bold%20Font%20Sample.pdf?dl=0
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> I am overriding the processTextPosition (.) method to do this, and i have
> tried all these options, but none has worked for me:
>
> 1.      if(
> text.getFont().getFontDescriptor().getFontName().toLowerCase().contains(
> "bold" ) ) {.}  // returns false.
> 2.      if( text.getFont().getName().toLowerCase().contains( "bold" )  {.}
> // returns false.
> 3.      System.out.println(
> text.getFont().getFontDescriptor().getFontWeight() );  // returns 0.0.
> 4.      System.out.println( getGraphicsState().getLineWidth() );  //
> returns
> 1.0.
> 5.      System.out.println(
> getGraphicsState().getTextState().getRenderingMode() );  // returns FILL
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> Note: The font name for the bold text in the PDF file is
> "frutigernextlt-heavycn". It has the word "heavy". I could detect it this
> way, but I think this is not a right procedure, as I have other PDF files
> with font names that have the "heavy" word while they're not bold.
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> Best regards,
>
> Hesham
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