[cl-pdf-devel] Fonts?

[Peter Seibel]

"Marc Battyani" <marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com> writes:

> "Peter Seibel" <peter at gigamonkeys.com> writes:
>>
>> So does cl-pdf support only Type 1 because of something intrinsic in
>> PDF or is it just a matter of programming to teach it to grok Truetype
>> fonts as well. And what about this new thing, OpenType?
>
> PDF can use Truetype fonts but it's not in cl-pdf as the font metrics is
> needed to be able to use the font anyway. It's possible to extract this
> information from a truetype file but it's not done yet. I think I've seen a
> cl-truetype somewhere which could be used for that. [Real time google
> check...] Looks like Zach Beane has something like that:
> www.xach.com/lisp/cl-truetype/
> So maybe it's relatively simple.
>
> I don't know if OpenType fonts are supported yet in pdf (It's not in
> the PDF reference 1.5).

Hmmm, just a wacky thought. Is there any easy way to extract fonts
from existing PDF docs? For instance, if I make a document in Word
using all sorts of fancy fonts and then print it to PDF (easy on the
Mac) cl-pdf-parse or something, extract the font info it needs to use
those fonts?

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                     peter at gigamonkeys.com

         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp