Embed font to PDF

[MHjerpe]

Vpe 3.50

We have made an own custom font that we want to embed with the generated pdf file.. so we set
hVpe:SetFontControl("hj_big","hj_big",TRUE,FALSE).

The font don't have any Copyright stuff set.

before WriteDoc..
Then when we open the doc in Reader we get:
"Cannot extract the embedded font 'hj_big'. Some chars bla bla".

Have tried different options EmbedAll and such but then I get Cannot Extract Arial MT bla bla...

I can see the fonts when I read the doc on my machine wich have the font installed.. but when copied to another machine.. the font we mad our self is substituted with a default font.

Any Ideas ?

[MHjerpe]

If I make a wordpad document with the custom font in and make a PDF (print to pdf) with adobe acrobat it embeds the font.. and I can view the document and the font on the other machine.

[MHjerpe]

As always a reboot of the machine cured it..
Vpe seems to chache fonts, and don't see new installed fonts right away..

[IDEAL Software Support]

A reboot is not necessary. Simply shut down your application and restart it.

The font cache of VPE marks a font as "not present", if you try to use a True-Type font before it is installed. Regarding Postscript fonts, they need to be present before your application is started.

Regards
Thorsten Radde
IDEAL Software GmbH

[MHjerpe]

I shut down the processes that uses VPE.dll and restarts them.. still they don't se my new installed font..

[IDEAL Software Support]

This can happen on servers, for example IIS, because IIS might hold the VPE DLL in memory. Simple test: shut down all your processes and try to rename the VPE DLL. If this is not possible, VPE is still running and the font cache is not updated.

Regards
Thorsten Radde
IDEAL Software GmbH