PDF and FONTS

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Fri Apr 3 15:00:19 PDT 2015


On 4/3/2015 4:45 PM, Rami Mantoura wrote:
> Does that mean I have to get my own fonts to load?

PDF supports the "base14" listed below by default.  For others, you can use 
any TTF that you have (assuming the license permits it).

> I am also having an issue with printing a bar code on the PDF.

Do you have a barcode font?

> Do you have any tips or samples?

Doesn't filePro come with a few PDF sample files?

[...]
>> You can set the font via the <FONT> tag.
>>
>> The PDF standard incudes a "base14" set of fonts, consisting of 5 font
>> families (Courier, Helvetica, Times, Symbol, and ZapfDingbats) with 4
>> varieties (plain, bold, italic, bold-italic) for the first three families.
>>
>> You can add your own TTF fonts by setting the appropriate PFFONT_xxxx
>> environment variables.

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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