[Interest] Embedded Font in PDF

Sune Vuorela nospam at vuorela.dk
Fri Aug 11 12:12:11 CEST 2023


On 2023-08-10, Zander <zander.mostrova at gmail.com> wrote:
> For some reason the font “chosen” by Qt is Tahoma, nowhere in my code do I
> specify a font.
> When viewing the pdf in Adobe reader I noticed that Qt embedded a subset of
> Tahoma: "*Language parts made red for privacy"*
> [image: tahoma.png]
><https://ddgobkiprc33d.cloudfront.net/4a771dc9-c091-4efc-851f-b73adaabbab5.png>
>
> The weird thing is that pdffonts (part of the Poppler library) indicaties
> that the font is completely embedded.

Qt is embedding fonts into pdf's in a slighly bizarre, but likely still
standards compliant way.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1036585

/Sune



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