Encoding Property

Summary

Character set encoding used by this font.

Syntax

C++/CLI

Java

Python

public string Encoding {get; set;}

public String getEncoding(); 
public void setEncoding( 
   java.lang.String string 
);

public:  
   property String^ Encoding 
   { 
      String^ get() 
      void set(String^ value) 
   }

Encoding # get and set (PDFFont)

Property Value

Character set encoding used by this font.

Remarks

This could be "StandardEncoding", "WinAnsiEncoding", or any other encodings defined by the constants below.

Value	Name	Description
StandardEncoding	EncodingStandardEncoding	PDF standard font encoding.
MacRomanEncoding	EncodingMacRomanEncoding	PDF Mac Roman font encoding.
WinAnsiEncoding	EncodingWinAnsiEncoding	PDF Windows ANSI font encoding.
PDFDocEncoding	EncodingPDFDocEncoding	PDF Doc font encoding.
MacExpertEncoding	EncodingMacExpertEncoding	PDF Mac Expert font encoding.

PDFFont matches the font properties from PDF specification.

Example

using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.Controls; 
using Leadtools.Pdf; 
using Leadtools.Svg; 
using Leadtools.WinForms; 
 
 
private static void DocumentFontsExample() 
{ 
   // Make a copy of 'leadtools.pdf' installed with LEADTOOLS 
   string pdfFile = @"C:\LEADTOOLS22\Resources\Images\leadtools.pdf"; 
 
   using (var document = new PDFDocument(pdfFile)) 
   { 
      document.ParseDocumentStructure(PDFParseDocumentStructureOptions.Fonts); 
 
      Console.WriteLine("Fonts found in the document:"); 
      if (document.Fonts != null && document.Fonts.Count > 0) 
      { 
         foreach (PDFFont font in document.Fonts) 
         { 
            string faceName = GetPDFFontFaceName(font); 
            string type = GetPDFFontTypeName(font); 
            string encoding = GetPDFFontEncodingName(font); 
 
            Console.WriteLine($"  Face name:{faceName}\n    type:{type} encoding:{encoding}"); 
         } 
      } 
   } 
} 
 
private static string GetPDFFontFaceName(PDFFont font) 
{ 
   if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(font.FaceName)) 
      return string.Empty; 
 
   string faceName = font.FaceName; 
 
   // Strip out everything between + and - 
   char[] separator = { '+', '-' }; 
   int index = faceName.IndexOfAny(separator); 
   if (index != -1) 
   { 
      faceName = faceName.Substring(index + 1); 
      index = faceName.IndexOfAny(separator); 
      if (index != -1) 
         faceName = faceName.Substring(0, index); 
   } 
 
   switch (font.EmbeddingType) 
   { 
      case PDFFontEmbeddingType.Embedded: 
         faceName += " (Embedded)"; 
         break; 
 
      case PDFFontEmbeddingType.EmbeddedSubset: 
         faceName += " (Embedded Subset)"; 
         break; 
 
      case PDFFontEmbeddingType.None: 
      default: 
         break; 
   } 
 
   return faceName; 
} 
 
private static string GetPDFFontTypeName(PDFFont font) 
{ 
   if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(font.FontType)) 
      return string.Empty; 
 
   if (string.Compare(PDFFont.TypeType0, font.FontType, true) == 0) 
   { 
      if (string.Compare(PDFFont.TypeCIDFontType2, font.DescendantCID, true) == 0) 
         return "TrueType (CID)"; 
      else 
         return "Type 2 (CID)"; 
   } 
 
   if (string.Compare(PDFFont.TypeType1, font.FontType, true) == 0) 
      return "Type 1"; 
 
   if (string.Compare(PDFFont.TypeType3, font.FontType, true) == 0) 
      return "Type 3"; 
 
   return font.FontType; 
} 
 
private static string GetPDFFontEncodingName(PDFFont font) 
{ 
   if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(font.Encoding)) 
      return "Custom"; 
 
   if (string.Compare(PDFFont.EncodingWinAnsiEncoding, font.Encoding, true) == 0) 
      return "Ansi"; 
 
   if (string.Compare(PDFFont.EncodingStandardEncoding, font.Encoding, true) == 0) 
      return "Standard"; 
 
   if (string.Compare(PDFFont.EncodingPDFDocEncoding, font.Encoding, true) == 0) 
      return "PDF"; 
 
   if (string.Compare(PDFFont.EncodingMacExpertEncoding, font.Encoding, true) == 0) 
      return "MAC Expert"; 
 
   if (string.Compare(PDFFont.EncodingMacRomanEncoding, font.Encoding, true) == 0) 
      return "MAC Roman"; 
 
   return font.Encoding; 
}

Requirements

Target Platforms

Reference

PDFFont Class

PDFFont Members

Leadtools.Pdf Namespace

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