Embedding font subset vs. text align

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to create a PDF/A document and I'm using AddTrueTypeSubsettedFont for font embedding. When I draw aligned text with DrawHTMLText and open the document in Adobe Reader, it displays left/center/right aligned text correctly, but instead of justified text it displays left aligned text. But when I try to select that text or move cursor in it, then it behaves like if there was justified text.

When I use AddTrueTypeFont to embed a font, then the justification works correctly. But I want to avoid that function, because it produces too large PDFs.

So when I embed a whole font, it works, when I embed a subset, it does not. Do I need to add some special character to the font subset, like a space or something, which is needed to draw the justified text?

I'm using Quick PDF 9.11, Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition, Windows 7.
Code snippet and picture below.

quickPDF.SetMeasurementUnits(1); // EDIT - I forgot to mention, that my values are in millimetres. int ID = quickPDF.AddTrueTypeSubsettedFont("Times New Roman", "a ", 0); quickPDF.SetHTMLNormalFont("Default", ID); quickPDF.DrawHTMLText(10.0, 10.0, 100.0, "<font size=\"20pt\"><p align=\"left\">aaaaaaaa aaaaa aaaa aaaaa aaaaa aaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaa</p></font>"); quickPDF.DrawHTMLText(10.0, 30.0, 100.0, "<font size=\"20pt\"><p align=\"center\">aaaaaaaa aaaaa aaaa aaaaa aaaaa aaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaa</p></font>"); quickPDF.DrawHTMLText(10.0, 50.0, 100.0, "<font size=\"20pt\"><p align=\"right\">aaaaaaaa aaaaa aaaa aaaaa aaaaa aaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaa</p></font>"); quickPDF.DrawHTMLText(10.0, 70.0, 100.0, "<font size=\"20pt\"><p align=\"justified\">aaaaaaaa aaaaa aaaa aaaaa aaaaa aaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaa</p></font>");

http://s18.postimage.org/q8pxktrs9/Justify.png


Edited by LuProch - 04 Mar 13 at 12:00PM

OK, so when I have that text containing just "a"-letters and spaces, then I have to embed "a" and " ". Which I did. But the justification doesn't work. So what other characters do I need to embed to make the justification work? I actually tried to embed all UTF characters from 0x0000 to 0xFFFF and it didn't help.


Edited by LuProch - 25 Feb 13 at 10:12AM

DrawHTMLtext only works with "justified", not with "justify".
And I need DrawHTMLtext to draw text, which has different parts in different font styles (normal/bold/italic/underline). If I wanted to use DrawText, I would have to split the text and write each part separately, am I right?

Can you try the following code which will make it simpler to understand and debug.

I later realised that your measurements were in mm. 

This code is working correctly

So my last option was to use AddStandardFont, but I found out that some letters with diacritics are missing in the resulting PDF file. I'm doomed.

Code snippet:
(I put it in a picture, because my browser didn't display the letters with diacritics correctly either.)
http://s12.postimage.org/voeep7qn1/Diacritics_code.png

Result:
http://s23.postimage.org/kpds3xshn/Diacritics.png


Edited by LuProch - 07 Mar 13 at 3:43PM