fonts in End User vsn of PDF Creator

DaveLevin · Post by **DaveLevin** » Sat Jan 31 2004

Hello,
I had some font related questions about the End User version of PDF Creator. 1) Is there a way to specify stroked glyphs? (In case this is the wrong term, I mean to refer to a glyph whose outline is painted but whose interior takes on the background color.) 2) How does one specify Symbol font, i.e., if I want a "diamond" symbol, how would I express that? 3) Are the Times Roman and Symbol fonts embedded in the resulting PDF, and if not, is there a convenient way to embed them?

Thanks,
Dave

Joan · Post by **Joan** » Mon Feb 02 2004

Hello,

1 - Unfotunately, there is no way to specify strike through font unless the font itself appear as strike through. You can add this to the wish list forum so our project manager can check the feasibility of adding this option.

2 - To use a specific font, it should be installed on your system.

You can call in VB something like:
acfpdfcreactivex1.ObjectAttribute("text1", "TextFont") = "Verdana,12,1,1"

The TextFont attributes are: font name, font size, bold, underline

3 - You can embed fonts in the PDF Creator using the EmbedFont method available since version 1.09, this can be used as follows:

EmbedFont( BaseFont As String, Option As acEmbedFontOptions )

The values for Option are :
acEmbedFontOptionNoEmbed = 0, // font is not embedded
acEmbedFontOptionPartial = 1, // font is partially embedded
acEmbedFontOptionFull = 2, // font is fully embedded.

To partially embed Verdana font in VB, you can call :
EmbedFont( "Verdana", 1& )

Hope this helps.

DaveLevin · Post by **DaveLevin** » Mon Feb 02 2004

Sorry for the lack of clarity of context in my original post. My questions concern the capabilities available via Amyuni Rapid PDF, which provides a PDF Creator GUI through which the user places text and/or graphics on the screen, which the tool reads and uses to create PDF on the fly. I realize that most of the posts on this forum are from a developer's perspective, so I wasn't sure if it was the right vehicle for my particular questions, which are framed in terms of a user of the above described "instant PDF" GUI tool.

1. The "stroked" font I was trying to describe is kind of an outline of a glyph. It's like instead of the letter "o" being a donut, it would appear as two concentric circles. I saw that Rapid PDF allows the user to alter some parameters associated with text, but I didn't happen to see this particular one. It would not pose a hardship for me if stroked font were not definable in Rapid PDF, I'm mainly looking to better understand the tool.

2. My conundrum was how to tell Rapid PDF to insert a character (especially of font "Symbol") which does not translate to a key on one's keyboard. I've since managed to figure out a way to address this, so I'm a happy camper.

3. When the Rapid PDF user creates text in say Times Roman, does the tool embed that font in the PDF it generates. Or perhaps this would be done only for "non-standard" fonts (where "non-standard" might be in the eye of the PDF Specification)? Again, I'm mainly trying to better understand the tool's capabilities, being that I've been using it for like four days. 8^)

Thanks,
Dave

Joan · Post by **Joan** » Tue Feb 03 2004

Now things are clearer!

1 - I am not really sure about the stroke font, but if the font is installed on your system you can try to use it in the PDF Creator.
All what you have to do is to set the PDF Creator to design mode, right click on a text and choose 'Properties' than select text font from the list and check if your stroked font is available in the list. It should be available if it is installed on your system.

2 - Great

!

3 - No, the font is not embedded in the PDF file. Embedding is used to view the pdf file on a system where that specific font is not installed. To Embbed the fonts you need the Developer version of the PDF Creator and you need to use the above code.

Please note that the version of the PDF Creator available with Rapid PDF is a simple PDF pdf editor. If you need more features you need to license the full version of the PDF Creator.

Hope this helps.

DaveLevin · Post by **DaveLevin** » Mon Feb 09 2004

Thanks! Another question: Does Rapid PDF support pasting one .pdf file into another, e.g., open first.pdf, append a page to it, insert second.pdf (a one page file) into that newly appended page, save the resulting "concatenation" of the two files as a single file?

Joan · Post by **Joan** » Thu Feb 19 2004

The PDF Creator version available in Rapid PDF enables you to Insert a pdf file at a specific location of an opened document or Appen a given pdf file to the end of an opened document. So from 2 or 3 files you can make one pdf file.

Hope this helps.