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How to render the text of a PDF document if the font is not embedded?

Every developer of a PDF viewer, a PDF printer and a PDF to Image Converter tool comes across the requirement to render non embedded fonts and is facing quite a challenging task. Not only developers but also users of these tools might be interested in non embedded fonts and how they are treated by these tools.
Nadine Schuppisser


May 10, 2016

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Every developer of a PDF viewer, a PDF printer and a PDF to Image Converter tool comes across the requirement to render non embedded fonts and is facing quite a challenging task. Not only developers but also users of these tools might be interested in non embedded fonts and how they are treated by these tools.

Read more about text rendering in our PDF expert blog.


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