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In all my created pdfs the lower L and capital I characters appear to be a bit more bold than the rest of the text. Further investigation pointed me in the direction that this is a known issue if the pdf is created with text/fonts being converted to outlines.
Question is, how can I prevent this behaviour and make the text appear consistent? In the documentation I did not see any option or flag to prevent converting text to outlines.
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Hi,
I am not exactly sure what you meant by "converting text/font to outlines". We don't do special conversion for fonts. We embed the font data in the PDF file so that a PDF Reader will always know how to "draw" the letters based on the embeded font data even if the font does not exist on the target machine.
Thanks!
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This post (google translated from german) exactly describes my issue: http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.safer-print.com%2Fde%2Ffaq%2FEin-dickes-Ding_Darstellungsfehler-im-PDF-beim-kleinen-L&act=urlThe second to last image with the mouse over effect exactly shows how text is displayed in my created pdfs. How can I prevent this behaviour?
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Hi,
We are not aware of anything particular on the PDF creation side that can avoid this (in fact we can't see noticeable difference between these letters in our test either). In PDF file all text are in vector format and a reader tries its best to display all letters properly and this is not something we can control in general. And beside, if you print the document out, because a printer usually has a much higher DPI, it should never be a problem. One thing I would suggest you to try is to use a different font ---- some times a PDF viewer can render one font much better than another.
Thanks!
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It seems that the problem is related to using custom fonts. If I change the font to a "standard" font (e.g. Helvetica) then the issue is gone and the text looks clean. However if I use custom fonts, the text in the pdf document in fact gets rendered as a graphic and not as text (no text selection possible, no text search possible etc). The only thing in the API I found that seems somewhat related is the PdfDocument.EmbedFont property which unfortunately has no impact on the problem. Is there something else I can do, except changing the font?
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Hi,
We are not aware that the converter would convert text into graphic. So it must be something else. In order for the converter to use a font, you must install that font on the server where the converter runs. Once a font is installed, there is no difference between that font and a standard font.
Thanks!
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