It’s safe to say that if someone designed fonts from scratch today they’d be very different on the inside. As with many technologies, the formats have evolved to allow for backwards compatibility and new requirements in ways which make them a bit, well, weird. What’s weird with fonts on the web? Modern web fonts contain…
Whilst working on the JPedal Java PDF Library at IDR Solutions I recently came across an interesting issue where Hebrew words could only be found in a PDF if they were spelt in reverse. This was an odd one as we were only able to find a single example of the issue. After some searching we…
We’ve spent a lot of time making sure that fonts inside PDFs look good when run through our PDF to HTML5 converter. In the process, we’ve learned a lot about how to make sure fonts look good in HTML5. Here’s our top 5 tips! 1. If possible, use TrueType outlines Most modern font formats are…
There are several ways that you can deal with text and fonts in PDF files when converting to HTML5. Here are there are the top 3 ways and how they stack up against each other: Convert PDF fonts to web fonts and draw real, selectable text Convert PDF fonts to shapes and draw text as…
In the early days of computers, text was stored in a simple way. Usually, one byte was used per character giving you the ability to use up to 128 different characters. (Back then the number of bits in a byte was not universally agreed, so the smallest regularly used byte length – 7 bits –…
