Using MS symbol fonts

[Ivan Kolev]

Hi,

Is it possible to embed and display Microsoft symbol TrueType fonts in
the PDF? For example, WingDings.
These fonts have platform ID 3 and encoding ID 0, which is not
supported by HPDF_LoadTTFontFromFile (only platform 3 encoding 1 is
supported). I modified ParseCMap() in hpdf_fontdef_tt.c to treat
encoding 0 as encoding 1, and the font is loaded successfully, however
the characters displayed in the PDF are invalid (or just empty).
I don't have much time to dig in the TTF and PDF specifications, so
any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Ivan

[Antony Dovgal]

The point is that this font doesn't have any characters except for special ones,
and these cannot be represented as text (which you pass to the libharu functions).

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Wbr,
Antony Dovgal

[Ivan Kolev]

On 5 Авг, 11:55, Antony Dovgal <t...@daylessday.org> wrote:
> The point is that this font doesn't have any characters except for special ones,
> and these cannot be represented as text (which you pass to the libharu functions).

The character codes seem normal, starting at 32 and ending at 255 (at
least as displayed by Character Map).
When rendering such characters with Windows API functions, they are
specified by normal ASCII characters. There's just a parameter
"character set" which must be set to "Symbol".
Anyway, it should be possible to embed and use a symbol font inside a
PDF - I just made a test with PDFCreator and it worked OK. The
generated PDF code looks a bit more complex though, it seems
PDFCreator makes and stores a specific encoding for the symbol font.
So I guess this won't be possible with libharu out-of-the-box. Unless
I modify my font to be a standard ASCII font with my special
characters in place of A,B,C,... I don't want to do that, but it seems
there's no quicker option. The other options are to modify libharu to
work with symbol fonts (which I don't know how long it would take), or
replace libharu with another PDF export library (which would take
long, but easier to estimate how long exactly).

Thanks,
Ivan