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

In January of 2022 Adobe, Inc., announced that it will disable support for authoring Type 1 fonts in January 2023 (see PostScript Type 1 fonts end of support). What impact will this have for Adobe PDF Converter? According to Adobe, a user's... Read More

Hyperlinks direct a reader to a different part of the same PDF document, or connect the reader to an external web page. In PDF a link is a type of annotation. So to compile a list of all of the links in a PDF document, you would list objects, Type â€... 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 retrieved values of PDPageGetBBox are members of an ASFixedRect structure, which stores four ASFixed variables for use in defining rectangular areas: Left Top Right Bottom The variables are defined in the asexpt.h header file. These are ASFixed... Read More

In DLI, if you know the width and depth of the image, and its color space, you can use dlpdfimagecreatefrombmp() to insert an image in a PDF document. There is a sample of this in the DLI Sample Graphics. You may also use dlpdfimagecreatefromfile()... 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

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

For Separation colors, the equivalents are retrieved by running the color value through the alternate color function using the PDApplyFunction() API. float inVal[4], tintTrans[4]; ... /* If this element has a GState, retrieve the Color Information... 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