pdftk bad characters after flatten

pdftk - bad characters after flatten

Hi, we do have a problem when flattening a pdf trough pdftk. We are
using some special characters (central european fonts - example: =C5=A1=C4=
=BE=C5=A5=C5=BE)
that we desperately need, but after flatten these characters are
replaced with an empty space. What we are exactly doing is importing a
xfdf file in UTF format. Importing this to a pdf form file without
flatten works great.

Re: pdftk - bad characters after flatten

On Nov 11, 9:07=C2=A0am, gentlestone <tibor.b...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, we do have a problem when flattening a pdf trough pdftk. We are
> using some special characters (central european fonts - example: =C5=A1=
=C4=BE=C5=A5=C5=BE)
> that we desperately need, but after flatten these characters are
> replaced with an empty space. What we are exactly doing is importing a
> xfdf file in UTF format. Importing this to a pdf form file without
> flatten works great.

pdftk was built with a very old iText version that didn't support, at
the time, substitution fonts. See the thread
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general/39983/.

Paulo

Re: pdftk - bad characters after flatten

On 11. Nov, 15:21 h., Paulo Soares <vari...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 9:07=C2=A0am, gentlestone <tibor.b...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, we do have a problem when flattening a pdf trough pdftk. We are
> > using some special characters (central european fonts - example: =C5=A1=
=C4=BE=C5=A5=C5=BE)
> > that we desperately need, but after flatten these characters are
> > replaced with an empty space. What we are exactly doing is importing a
> > xfdf file in UTF format. Importing this to a pdf form file without
> > flatten works great.
>
> pdftk was built with a very old iText version that didn't support, at
> the time, substitution fonts. See the threadhttp://thread.gmane.org/gmane=
.comp.java.lib.itext.general/39983/.
>
> Paulo

thx, seems to be itext is a java library, not an end user tool, so the
only way is write a java application

have you any recomendation how to use it whitout java (in python)?

Re: pdftk - bad characters after flatten

On Nov 11, 3:28=C2=A0pm, gentlestone <tibor.b...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 11. Nov, 15:21 h., Paulo Soares <vari...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 11, 9:07=C2=A0am, gentlestone <tibor.b...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi, we do have a problem when flattening a pdf trough pdftk. We are
> > > using some special characters (central european fonts - example: =C5=
=A1=C4=BE=C5=A5=C5=BE)
> > > that we desperately need, but after flatten these characters are
> > > replaced with an empty space. What we are exactly doing is importing =
a
> > > xfdf file in UTF format. Importing this to a pdf form file without
> > > flatten works great.
>
> > pdftk was built with a very old iText version that didn't support, at
> > the time, substitution fonts. See the threadhttp://thread.gmane.org/gma=
ne.comp.java.lib.itext.general/39983/.
>
> > Paulo
>
> thx, seems to be itext is a java library, not an end user tool, so the
> only way is write a java application
>
> have you any recomendation how to use it whitout java (in python)?

You can use jython or iron python.

Paulo

Re: pdftk - bad characters after flatten

On 11. Nov, 17:33 h., Paulo Soares <vari...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 3:28=C2=A0pm, gentlestone <tibor.b...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 11. Nov, 15:21 h., Paulo Soares <vari...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Nov 11, 9:07=C2=A0am, gentlestone <tibor.b...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi, we do have a problem when flattening a pdf trough pdftk. We are
> > > > using some special characters (central european fonts - example: =
=C5=A1=C4=BE=C5=A5=C5=BE)
> > > > that we desperately need, but after flatten these characters are
> > > > replaced with an empty space. What we are exactly doing is importin=
g a
> > > > xfdf file in UTF format. Importing this to a pdf form file without
> > > > flatten works great.
>
> > > pdftk was built with a very old iText version that didn't support, at
> > > the time, substitution fonts. See the threadhttp://thread.gmane.org/g=
mane.comp.java.lib.itext.general/39983/.
>
> > > Paulo
>
> > thx, seems to be itext is a java library, not an end user tool, so the
> > only way is write a java application
>
> > have you any recomendation how to use it whitout java (in python)?
>
> You can use jython or iron python.
>
> Paulo

thx, I tried write a java application with itext, it works good

jython sounds good