APDFL: Fonts and CMAPS

When using a function or object to print PDF files, you might sometimes see the print job fail, where some or all of the fonts are missing. If you embed all of the fonts in a PDF document, it can be sent to any printer, on any system. The speed of... Read More

The Datalogics build of APDFL includes additional APIs to facilitate setting Unicode text. These APIs are demonstrated in the Unicode sample program in the APDFL/CPlusPlus/Sample_Source folder: PDETextAddASText() PDETextGetASText()... Read More

A bookmark in a PDF document labels a place within the PDF document to serve as a destination, usually a heading or a graphic. After you add a bookmark, you can create a hyperlink elsewhere in the same PDF document and connect it to that bookmark.... Read More

On Unix based machines, the Adobe PDF Library looks for font resources in a few default directories: /usr/lib/X11/fonts /usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /usr/share/X11/fonts /usr/share/fonts To specify a particular directory to look for fonts, please... Read More

Standard or linear barcodes such as the UPC barcode or the Code 3 of 9 barcode can be found in a number of font formats. These fonts can be placed in a PDF with the Adobe PDF Library and the character strings representing the data can be added in the... Read More

If you want to use a font that only offers a normal typeface—not bold, not italic—you can simulate bold by setting the same string several times at almost the same location, offset slightly. So the character would be printed twice in the... Read More

The PDF format includes a set of 14 standard fonts that can be used without prior definition. APDFL can set text using the base 14 fonts, even if the fonts do not exist on the local system. Don't use PDEFontCreateFromSysFont. Use the... Read More

The last parameter of the dlpdffontcreateembedded or dlpdffontcreatewithmetricsembedded calls, both used to embed fonts in a PDF document, is the Subset flag. This flag specifies whether you want the entire font embedded in the PDF document, or only... Read More

When I try to save a PDF file without making any changes error number 537067605 appears, "The encoding (CMap) specified by a font is missing." I have scanned the document and discovered all fonts. I then downloaded and installed all the fonts on my... Read More

When your application starts, it will call the PDFLInitHFT() method to begin the initialization process for the Library. When the Library initializes it compiles a list of all its available resources. In particular it identifies the file folders... Read More