RE: Corrupt font display on iOS when using PDF-Images with merge-fonts=true

Hi,

 

If I am able to source a iOS/mac device at work, I will look into this.

 

Thanks

 

From: Mark Gibson <[email protected]> 
Sent: 16 August 2022 16:56
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Corrupt font display on iOS when using PDF-Images with merge-fonts=true

 

Hi Luca

 

We have no control over the source PDF being embedded.  They are often (but not always) exported as PDF from Excel.  And done by our clients, not us.

 

Do we have any other options?  Either via fixups to FOP or bug notifications to iOS browsers (I’m gonna guess chromium).

 

Thanks

Mark

 

From: Luca Bellonda <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 
Sent: 16 August 2022 14:47
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: Corrupt font display on iOS when using PDF-Images with merge-fonts=true

 

[EXTERNAL] 

 

Hello the PDF is visible on Linux viewers and browsers, but the fonts are embedded as subset in both the source PDFs and as fully embedded in the final PDF with the fonts merged.

The name of the font in the source pdf for example is BCDEEE+Calibri-Bold, compatible with embedded subsets (6 chars and a plus sign).

The name of the font in the merged file is Calibri-Bold, which should identify it as fully embedded.

I guess the wrong viewer is not able to deal with the character decoding, thinking to use a fully embedded font.

Please, try generating the source PDFs embedding the whole fonts and not a subset.

 

 

lb

 

 

Il giorno mar 16 ago 2022 alle ore 13:13 Mark Gibson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > ha scritto:

  

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-3089

 

Viewing in Windows browsers is fine

Viewing in iOS browsers is corrupt

Viewing in Adobe app on iOS and windows is fine

Apologies, no access to Linux devices to test viewing

 

Same issue occurs when running FOP 2.7 on Linux (CentOS) and Windows (10)