Having spent a good long amount of time working with fonts we have been blogging about our experiences with fonts.
We thought that with a good deal of articles available in our archives we felt that Fonts deserved their own index!
We hope you enjoy them, and contact us if you have any suggestions.
A Guide to all to all Font related
In this section we cover all thing related to Font, from HTML5 & SVG Font support, conversions, Font in PDF’s, Java, useful tools, bugs and understanding fonts in the PDF file format better.
Introductory articles
What is font hinting? The basics explained.
Are there really 3 types of fonts in PDF files?
Mapping Glyfs from PDF in HTML5 and SVG
Fonts and HTML
HTML5 and SVG font support (or 3 reasons to use WOFF)
Cleaning up our HTML5 Output – Text Spacing adjustment without JavaScript
PDF to HTML5 – choosing the best fontsize
Font Conversion for PDF2HTML – dotsection
PDF to HTML5 – choosing the best fontsize
PDF to HTML5 conversion – PostScript font support
PDF to HTML5 conversion – non-standard glyfs
PDF to HTML5 conversion – position accuracy
PDF to HTML5 conversion – Using chrome to enhance Text layout
PDF to HTML5 conversion – Truetype fonts
Custom HTML Font Mapping in PDF to HTML conversion
PDF to HTML5 conversion – Text and fonts (Part 1)
PDF to HTML5 conversion – Text and fonts (Part 2)
How to use Type 1 fonts on the Web
Tools
Useful Truetype/Opentype font tool
6 tools for making fonts work in browsers
Opinion articles
Should Type 3 Font support be dropped from the PDF Specification?
Technical articles
How we Regression Test updates to our PDF to HTML 5 Converter
Interesting Java bugs – Not all TTF fonts work in Java
TrueType Hinting – Big Screens for Small Details
Are your Truetype CMAP tables lying to you?
Mystery of the PDF file and the missing Euro Character
Understanding the PDF file Format – Custom font encodings
Problems caused by Arial font in PDF files
Problems you can meet in implementing a PDF library – ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in a Font
Understanding the PDF file Format – What are CID fonts
PDF text extraction – Why can I not extract text from this PDF file?
Be careful with your PDF fonts
PDF with odd Type3 fonts in Ghostscript 8.50
Why are CID fonts far more complicated than non-CID fonts
Interesting PDF bugs – Dealing with three type of fonts
Do you feel like there is something that we haven’t covered and would like to see us cover in the future? Leave us a comment and we will see what we can do!
IDRsolutions develop a Java PDF library, a PDF forms to HTML5 converter, a PDF to HTML5 or SVG converter and a Java Image Library that doubles as an ImageIO replacement. On the blog our team post about anything interesting they learn about.
