Re: Disabling random prefix of embedded fonts in PDF [SOLVED]

[Kostis Kapelonis <kk...@freemail.gr>]

Hello

I upgraded to FOP 0.95 and the problem was solved!

Now the name of the font is not prefixed anymore. It also says "embedded 
subset" next
to the name of the font in Adobe Acrobat so I guess this has something 
to do with the prefix removal.

I did not change anything at all in my Java code or FOP configuration

Thank you
> Hi Kostis,
> the prefix is required by the PDF specification for fonts that are
> embedded as subsets.
>
> From PDF 1.4, chapter 5.5.3 Subset fonts:
> "For a font subset, the PostScript name of the font—the value of the
> font’s BaseFont entry and the font descriptor’s FontName entry—begins
> with a tag followed by a plus sign (+). The tag consists of exactly six
> uppercase letters; the choice of letters is arbitrary, but different
> subsets in the same PDF file must have different tags. For example,
> EOODIA+Poetica is the name of a subset of Poetica®, a Type 1 font."
>
> So it's not possible to disable this. The only thing you can do is to
> use the font in single-byte (WinAnsi) mode. See:
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/fonts.html#embedding
> (look for "encoding-mode")
>
> Fop can not currently embed and use full fonts in multi-byte mode.
>
> On 15.04.2009 23:16:09 Kostis Kapelonis wrote:
>   
>> Hello
>>
>> According to the fonts faq at 
>> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.94/fonts.html :
>>
>> "When FOP embeds a font, it adds a prefix to the fontname to ensure that 
>> the name will not match the fontname of an installed font. This is 
>> helpful with older versions of Acrobat Reader that preferred installed 
>> fonts over embedded fonts."
>>
>> Is it possible to disable this with an option/setting/property/switch?
>>
>> I am asking this because I cannot edit the resulting PDF file with Adobe 
>> Acrobat (version 8). It complains that it cannot find the fonts the 
>> document is using.
>>
>> Thank you
>>     
>
>
>
> Jeremias Maerki
>
>
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