pdfsharp - font embed?

Question

I am given a file that has some other language font. They can not download the font, so they want me to embed it in the pdf.

Now, I only have PDF Reader, so I cant edit or create a pdf file. so I decided to quickly do it in C#.NET using PDFSharp library, but I just cant seem to figure out how to embed fonts using pdfSharp?!

Also, it's only 1 file that I have to process, so if you know of a way to do it manually, then that would be great too.

Nescience

Answer 1

There are two ways to do this. For each font you want to embed like this:

var options = new XPdfFontOptions(PdfFontEmbedding.Always);
var font = new XFont("Times New Roman", 12, XFontStyle.Regular, options);

Then if you use the font, it will get embedded.

If you want all fonts use on a page to be embedded you can do it like this:

var page = new PdfPage();
var gfx = XGraphics.FromPdfPage(page);
gfx.MFEH = PdfFontEmbedding.Automatic;

The second approach will also work for any fonts used in MigraDoc code.

Meggs

Does this mean the fonts need to be installed in the server? Is there a way to point to a font file in the FS? – Willianwillie

@JamesReategui Check out the following sample, as it is about "private fonts": pdfsharp.net/wiki/PrivateFonts-sample.ashx – Paucker

What is this in that example? – Autoerotic