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  2. PDF-181

Umlauts are rendered incorrectly

          Details

          • Type: Bug Bug
          • Status: Closed
          • Priority: Major Major
          • Resolution: Fixed
          • Affects Version/s: 4.0.1
          • Fix Version/s: 4.2
          • Component/s: Core/Parsing
          • Labels:
            None
          • Environment:
            -
          • Assignee Priority:
            P3

            Description

            Umlauts are rendered in an incorrect bold color and positioned very close to the character to the right. This issue occurs when the Frutiger fonts are installed on the local system and result in ICEpdf throwing the following font substitution error message during rendering:

            <message>Font Substitution: Found failed Frutiger45light,Italic Arial-BoldMT</message>

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              Patrick Corless added a comment -

              I manged to edit the pdfviewerfontcache.properties to get the fonts in question to load correctly. However the output didn't look much better the Umlaut was still pretty close to the next character. Actually in Acrobat it is pretty close too.

              The reason they are seeing font "found failed" is that the fonts in question do not have enought naming information embedded in the font file. For example they are list as follows:

              ftb--- /frutiger65bold c\:\\windows\\fonts
              FTB.TTF
              ftlb-- /frutiger45light c\:\\windows\\fonts
              Ftlb.ttf
              ftl--- /frutiger45light c\:\\windows\\fonts
              FTL.TTF

              For frutiger65bold everything is OK as we can get the bold information from the font base name. However the font names ftlb and ftlb have the same base name and no notion of bold or italic.

              The only way to make this work is so to go into the pdfviewerfontcache.properties and tweak the font style value. Here are the reference integers.

              boldItalic = -268431360
              italic = -268435200
              bold = -268435440
              plain = -268435455

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              Patrick Corless added a comment - I manged to edit the pdfviewerfontcache.properties to get the fonts in question to load correctly. However the output didn't look much better the Umlaut was still pretty close to the next character. Actually in Acrobat it is pretty close too. The reason they are seeing font "found failed" is that the fonts in question do not have enought naming information embedded in the font file. For example they are list as follows: ftb--- /frutiger65bold c\:\\windows\\fonts FTB.TTF ftlb-- /frutiger45light c\:\\windows\\fonts Ftlb.ttf ftl--- /frutiger45light c\:\\windows\\fonts FTL.TTF For frutiger65bold everything is OK as we can get the bold information from the font base name. However the font names ftlb and ftlb have the same base name and no notion of bold or italic. The only way to make this work is so to go into the pdfviewerfontcache.properties and tweak the font style value. Here are the reference integers. boldItalic = -268431360 italic = -268435200 bold = -268435440 plain = -268435455
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              Patrick Corless added a comment -

              Customer is reporting the PDF in question is rendering in a satisfactory way. Closing issue.

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              Patrick Corless added a comment - Customer is reporting the PDF in question is rendering in a satisfactory way. Closing issue.

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                • Assignee:
                  Patrick Corless
                  Reporter:
                  Tyler Johnson
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