IDENTITY-H encoding in iText

[Mathias Nilsson]

Hi,

I'm currently working on a multilanguage pdf-generation system and iText is perfect for the job. When generating the pdf I also use ghost script and image magick to create a jpeg preview.
When using cp852 encoding for swedish, english etc everything works great.

But when using unicode font ( arial ) the pdf is generated, but ghost script complains about the pdf. Is there a way to check the pdf? When a co-worker opens the pdf in pit-stop an error occures about the IDENTITY-H font.

I create the font by using.
com.lowagie.text.Font f = new com.lowagie.text.Font(BaseFont.createFont( "d:/pdf/fonts/arialuni.ttf" ,BaseFont.IDENTITY_H ,BaseFont.EMBEDDED ));

How can I validate the pdf?

[Leonard Rosenthol-3]

Sounds like you are using some old versions of Ghostscript and/or Pitstop.  Make sure you are current.

Identity-H is the right way to go!

Leonard

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Hi,

I'm currently working on a multilanguage pdf-generation system and iText is
perfect for the job. When generating the pdf I also use ghost script and
image magick to create a jpeg preview.
When using cp852 encoding for swedish, english etc everything works great.

But when using unicode font ( arial ) the pdf is generated, but ghost script
complains about the pdf. Is there a way to check the pdf? When a co-worker
opens the pdf in pit-stop an error occures about the IDENTITY-H font.

I create the font by using.
com.lowagie.text.Font f = new com.lowagie.text.Font(BaseFont.createFont(
"d:/pdf/fonts/arialuni.ttf" ,BaseFont.IDENTITY_H ,BaseFont.EMBEDDED ));

How can I validate the pdf?
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[Mathias Nilsson]

I'm using Ghostscript 8.7 and I can't see any newer version.

/ Mathias

[Mathias Nilsson]

Mathias Nilsson wrote:

I'm using Ghostscript 8.7 and I can't see any newer version.

/ Mathias

Here is the file I'm working with
test.pdf

[Paulo Soares-3]

I don't see anything wrong with the file and the pre-flight in Acrobat
doesn't complain. What errors do you get?

Paulo

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Mathias Nilsson wrote:
>
> I'm using Ghostscript 8.7 and I can't see any newer version.
>
> / Mathias
>
Here is the file I'm working with
http://old.nabble.com/file/p26240922/test.pdf test.pdf
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[Mathias Nilsson]

I don't have pit stop or other tools to check it right now but the problem was rather simple. When checking the ghost script it complains about a font IDENTITY-H.
I forgot that my list item used a none unicode font to make a box before every listitem.