Font embedding is the inclusion of font files within an electronic document. This is possible with several file formats including Portable Document Format (PDF) and Microsoft Word (DOC).
Questions tagged [embedded-fonts]
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How to Get font descriptors - CapHeight, Ascent, Descent, Flags, ItalicAngle, StemV of TTF Font
I am trying to create my own tool for creating the pdf file. Every thing is going well, Only thing I miss is the font descriptors. Kindly let me know the correct values of capheight, ascent, descent, glag, italic angle from afm/pfa/pfb or any tool…
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How to use embedded fonts with CSS in Spark skins of a Flex mobile project?
Short example to describe the problem. Set up a usual Flex mobile project with the following files (and OpenSans font).
Main.mxml

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Printing issue while using custom font in Java application
I am using a custom font (TTF) in my Java application where i set the font into graphics and do some DrawText.
Currently I use Font.createFont() to load the custom TTF font. But When i try to print the graphics canvas into a Virtual PDF…

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Cannot get Flash Runtime Shared Library to work
I am using Flash CS5 (assets) and FlashDevelop (code) for my project. We have about 20 fla/swf's that contain textfields. All of our textfields use the same Font, and the font is specific to our company so won't be installed on anyones computers,…

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Does embedded fonts in css affect performance per usage?
I know there is a performance overhead for loading the font file, but the question is, once it has been downloaded, can I use it freely any number of times on my HTML page? or does it add an overhead every time it is being used?

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Embedding fonts in iPad
I am trying to embed Google fonts in a WebView in iPad.
If I put this in the head all works fine:
The html is local then I need to copy the CSS and the…

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PDF font mapping error
While rendering a PDF file generated by PDFCreator 0.9.x. I noticed it contains an error in the character mapping. Now, an error in a PDF file is nothing to be wondered about, Acrobat does wonders in rendering faulty PDF files hence a lot of PDF…

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top of Swift custom font clipping
I have a custom font in my app, I added it to the app properly, I set up the Target Membership, added it to the plist file, etc, everything is fine and the I can use the font, but the top of some characters are clipped:
As you can see it only…

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How can I embed Traditional Chinese characters in an actionscript project?
I'm having some issue with embedding Traditional Chinese characters from the Arial Unicode MS font. I've used the character set described here (0x4E00 - 0x4FFF).
I will need to display text using the TextLayoutFramework(TLF) and I've done a couple…

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PHP lib for print save PDFs?
I need to create print save PDFs with PHP, is there a library which supports embedded fonts and the CMYK color model?

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Webfont only working on frontpage in IE 7
The company I am working for bought a font at myfonts.com. They included a javascript to make it working for different browsers.
The font is currently working in various browsers. Even in Internet Explorer partly. But it is not working with…

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Embedded font is not rendering or downloading
I've been stuck on this for an hour. Clearly I have no idea what I'm doing...
What is wrong with the embed below? Checking the network tab, fonts.css is being loaded, but the Network tab doesn't even attempt to download any webfonts.
What am I doing…

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Google Font rendering in IE7
I'm finding some inconsistency when using the Google Fonts on my site.
I'm importing Arvo Regular and Bold into my site and find that IE 7 is not rendering the fonts as I would expect every time. The first example is how I want it to…

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Silverlight Random Font Bug
I've added a few custom fonts to a Silverlight project. However, their behavior is very sporadic. I'm using it in a custom control. When I first add the control, it displays fine. When I rebuild, the font changes back to default. When I view the app…

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Flex 4 embedding fonts for Spark components
I'm having a problem embedding fonts with the Open Source Flex 4.5 SDK (Hero), although am having the same issues with Flex 4 Open Source SDK. I've added some ttf files to the assets directory of my project structure and am trying to access the…

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