APDFL: Fonts and CMAPS

A QR code can be generated with APDFL C++ interface from a string using the PDPageAddQRBarcode() function. This functionality is exposed in the .Net and Java interfaces as the AddQRCode method of the Page class. There are other sorts of two... Read More

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

Fonts and CMaps are needed when: Creating PDF documents and adding text strings. The resources are needed to embed and subset fonts. Rendering a document page if any font or CMap needed for that document is not embedded in the document. Fonts are... 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 such that the character would be imprinted twice... Read More

The Details The issue revolves around a specific error message encountered during the processing of a PDF file: "The encoding(CMap) specified by a font is missing." This error typically indicates that the application is unable to locate the necessary... Read More

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

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

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