Creating a pdf template

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kingtravel
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Creating a pdf template

Postby kingtravel » Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:28 pm

Hi,

I want to create a label template with inkscape which gets printed on a product. The printer can handle pdf documents. The label shall contain text placeholders like "#Text". That means that I can give the placeholder a certain position and a font in inkscape. Before the label gets printed on the product the placeholder will be replaced by a product id. To achieve this I'm using iText .net library to manipulate the pdf template.

Now I'm encountering a problem with the font. When I save the file as pdf it subsets the font to the pdf file which means that only the characters are available which are currently used. The consequence is that when I replace the placeholder with other characters those characters cannot be displayed by a pdf viewer (or printer).
As example the placeholder shall be "#Text". When I replace the text by "#TexB" the "B" cannot get displayed.
One solution could be the complete embedding of the font into the document.
But I could not find a setting for this.
Any ideas?

Moini
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Re: Creating a pdf template

Postby Moini » Wed Sep 13, 2017 11:19 pm

Do I understand correctly, that you selected the option 'Embed fonts' when you saved as pdf from Inkscape, but it didn't embed the full font, but only the subset?
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Moini
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Re: Creating a pdf template

Postby Moini » Wed Sep 13, 2017 11:20 pm

(another, silly option, if that's the case: Type out all characters that you might possibly need, and hide them somewhere in the drawing)
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