What Fonts Does APDFL Include? The Adobe PDF Library package contains a basic set of fonts matching fonts that you would get with Adobe Acrobat; these include Courier, Symbol and the Adobe serif and sans-serif multi-master fonts, plus a set of CJKV... Read More
APDFL: Fonts and CMAPS
In the Adobe Samples directory, the FontEmbed sample illustrates both embedding and subsetting a font. The difficult part is creating the font. You must use one of the font creation methods that include the PDEFontCreateFlags: ... Read More
Fonts and CMaps are needed when: Creating PDF documents and adding text strings. In this case, you’ll need the resources to embed and subset fonts. Rendering a document page if any font or CMap needed for that document is not embedded in the... Read More
Datalogics added a method to Adobe PDF Library v18.0.3PlusP1e (November 4, 2020) called PDDocReplaceUnembeddedSimpleFonts(). This method, declared in the header file DLExtrasCalls.h, allows you to replace an unembedded simple font (Type 1, TrueType,... Read More
The AdobeFnt16.1.lst files are a byproduct of normal Adobe PDF Library operation (including other Library-based products such as Acrobat or Reader). The exact number shown in the filename will vary from one version of APDFL to another, and from one... Read More
Font embedding places the entire font within your output file, while font subsetting places only those characters which are actually used within your output file. A PDF file with all fonts fully embedded can be quite large. Adobe allows the embedding... Read More