Category Archives: Fonts

PDF to HTML5 conversion – duplicate font names

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Mark Stephens

When you convert PDF to HTML5, you can have a potential problem of duplicate font names. In a PDF file, you can embed lots of fonts and subset them to ignore just the glyfs you are using (keeping the font … Continue reading →

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PDF to HTML5 conversion – the standard PDF base font families

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Mark Stephens

With a PDF, you can generally assume that 8 font families (Courier, Arial, etc) are all setup for you and you do not need to embed them. This keeps down the size of the PDF file. However, this does not … Continue reading →

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Interesting PDF bugs – Dealing with three type of fonts

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Mark Stephens

One of the issues we get a lot with PDFs is the issue of non-embedded fonts. There are types of fonts in a PDF file:- 1. Fonts belonging to the 8 defined families (Arial, Helvetica,etc) defined as being in a … Continue reading →

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Font Conversion for PDF2HTML – dotsection

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Sam Howard

We recently released support for converting Type1c (otherwise known as CFF) fonts to OpenType for use within our PDF to HTML converter. I thought it would make an interesting blog article because it gives you an insight into the world … Continue reading →

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PDF to HTML5 conversion – PostScript font support

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Mark Stephens

PDF to HTML5 conversion has to deal with the issue of embedded fonts in PDF files, and there are THREE ways to do this:- 1. Ignore the issue and hope the text looks okay in the available fonts. 2. Convert … Continue reading →

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