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Hi,

I'm using WPDF to generate PDFs using Times New Roman an Arial. Works fine.

The one problem is: On some systems the Arial part doesn't display correctly, as if the font wasn't installed, although it is (on WinXP in the folder "C:\Windows\Fonts\") and works well with any other application like Word.
Exchanging the fonts-file does help, this confirms the suspicion, that the font is corrupt (though other apps don't have the problem).

This isn't even a WPDF-only problem. QuickPDF has simular results. It's on all Adobe versions I've tested and on the PDFActionReader.

Possible solutions are:
- Exchanging the fonts-files (though sometimes they can't be removed/exchanged)
- Using different fonts
- Embedding fonts, that I would deliver with my application

My questions are:
- Why is this?
- How can I exchange fonts, that seem write-protected (another app has a lock on them, maybe?)
- Can I embed fonts from a file using WPDF?
- Could I ship Arial with my application, or are there copyright-restrictions?

Thanks in advance,
Pim

The FAQ to wPDF-Tools states:
"Can I use wPDF to read and print PDF files ?
Sorry, this is not possible.
What wPDF does is to reuse the data stored in an existing PDF file
as watermarks for a new PDF file.
While doing this it preserves the original information and does not
interpret and translate the PDF file.
This functionality is in particular useful when 'printing' to government forms."

And in the thread "problems using pdf's as watermarks" we read:
"PDF as watermark only works for PDF files which are not linearized.
Unfortunately newer PDF readers are not very good with watermarks,
so this feature should not be used. "

We would like to "fill in" the blanks in an existing PDF-form using our program. We have thought
of working on the PDF-forms and filling them using the canvas.
If we handle the form as a graphic (not as a watermark) we encounter the following two problems:
a) The form uses too much memory if handled as a bitmap. The pdf-file that is created using this
method is too big.
b) When handled as a JPG, the created file is of insufficent quality.

Is it possible to use the WP-Tools to work on existing PDF-files and change (add to) their content?

thanks in advance

Unsere Applikation benutzt wPDF für den Ausdruck.
Wird die Anwendung direkt von CD gestartet, bricht die Druckfunktion mit der Fehlermeldung "Exception Exception in dll ..." aus der wPDF-DLL ab.

Wird der CD-Inhalt auf Festplatte kopiert funktionieren Anwendung+wPDF-Tool einwandfrei.

Woran liegt das, bzw. wie kann man das Problem beheben?