Optimized Font Substitution

Optimized Font Substitution

Some PDF documents do not embed the fonts required to render the document in the document itself. For ICEpdf to display these documents accurately, it must substitute an available system font for any non-embedded fonts used in the document. The following optional but recommended configurations can be used to improve ICEpdf's ability to find and select a system font that best matches the non-embedded font specified by the PDF document.

Supporting the 14 Standard Adobe Fonts

To enable the best possible font substitution for the 14 standard Adobe fonts, ICEsoft recommends that you download and install the fonts provided by Ghostscript, which are freely available at:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gs-fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz

The steps to install the fonts are platform-specific.

Windows

Unzip the download file and extract the .pfm files to a temporary directory.
Launch Fonts from the Control Panel.
Select File > Install New Font.
Navigate to the temporary directory, select the fonts, and click OK.

Other Platforms

For Linux, Solaris, or Mac OS X platforms, see your system documentation for information on installing the fonts.

Supporting Asian Languages

If your application requires support for Asian languages, such as Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, and Korean, you should add the optional JAR file icepdf_intl.jar to your application classpath to ensure maximum rendering quality of the respective language's characters.