[cl-pdf-devel] Fonts?

[Marc Battyani]

"Peter Seibel" <peter at gigamonkeys.com> writes:

> 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?

Generally no, as only the needed characters glyphs are embedded in the pdf
file. But if you write all the possibles characters in the pdf it should be
OK.

Marc