[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-2482) Support for creating PDF containing OTF fonts

["Benjamin Eder (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Benjamin Eder commented on PDFBOX-2482:
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I am currently testing for a project whether we can use OTF fonts with PDFBox. It is working just fine using:
{code:java}
OTFParser otfParser = new OTFParser();
OpenTypeFont otf = otfParser.parse(new File("C:/Users/beder/Downloads/code/CODE Light.otf"));

PDFont font = PDType0Font.load(document, otf, false);
{code}
Since support for subsetting is not there yet (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3758) we have to set the third parameter of PDType0Font.load(..) to false. The resulting PDF is of course a bit bigger, but that is not a blocker for me.

> Support for creating PDF containing OTF fonts
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-2482
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2482
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: FontBox, Writing
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>            Reporter: Corinna Kinchin
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 3.0.0 PDFBox
>
>
> Good morning!
> I have tried posting this question on the users list and stackOverflow, but no luck ... other than Tilman Hausher's suggestion that I log an enhancement request ... so here it is - it would be beyond wonderful if you might consider supporting OTF fonts in PDF. 
> Here's the background - I've just (last week) downloaded the latest PDFbox source from github and am trying to create a HelloWorldOTF.java, based on the HelloWorldTTF.java example, with the hope of creating a PDF file which uses an OTF font (in this case, Adobe Caslon Pro Regular) to add text to the output PDF.
> Here's what I have so far:
> {code:java}
>         doc = new PDDocument();
>         PDPage page = new PDPage();
>         doc.addPage(page);
>         String testOtfFontFile =  "c:/windows/fonts/ACaslonPro-Regular.otf";
>         String testTtfFontFile = "c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf";
>         String testPdfFile = "c:/tmp/pdfboxtest.pdf";
>         CFFFont font = loadCFFFont(testOtfFontFile);
>         PDFont ttfFont = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(doc, new File(testTtfFontFile));
>         PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(doc,
>                 page);
>         contentStream.beginText();
>         // How to set the CFFFont?
>         contentStream.setFont(ttfFont, 12);
>         contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(100, 700);
>         contentStream.drawString(text);
>         contentStream.endText();
>         contentStream.close();
>         doc.save(testPdfFile);
>         System.out.println(testPdfFile + " created!");
> {code}
> I can load a CFFFont using this code: (loadCFFFont()):
> {code:java}
>             CFFFont cff = null;
>             input = new FileInputStream(file);
>             byte[] bytes = IOUtils.toByteArray(input);
>             CFFParser cffParser = new CFFParser();
>             cff = cffParser.parse(bytes).get(0);
> {code}
> ... but can't for the life of me figure out how to get from a CFFFont to a PDFont in order to be able to use it to set the font via setFont().
> Any help or pointers would be hugely appreciated ...
> Thanks a million for reading this far ;)



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