Re: PDF reader that overrides fonts
2008/6/7 Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>:
> #! /bin/bash
> #
> # pdfstripsfonts: a simple wrapper script that invokes ghostscript
> # to remove all embedded fonts from a PDF document (work in progress)
>
> if [ -z "$1" ]
> then echo "Usage: ${0##*/} input_pdf [output_pdf]"
> exit 1
> fi
> INFILE="$1"
>
> if [ -z "$2" ]
> then OUTFILE="${INFILE%.pdf}-NOFONTS.pdf"
> else OUTFILE="$2"
> fi
>
> FONTS="$(pdffonts "$INFILE" | awk 'NR>2{ORS=" ";print "/"$1}')"
>
> gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH \
> -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="$OUTFILE" \
> -c ".setpdfwrite <</NeverEmbed [$FONTS]>> setdistillerparams" \
> -f "$INFILE"
>
Thank you Florian. The script may not be UTF-8 compatible, as none of
the letters appeaar at all after running through the script.
Going back to Inkscape, which is the only solution that I have yet to
find to display the file properly without the offending font, I have
found that the program can export to PS just fine. Thus, I have a
single-page PS file with the correct font and letterspacing. Exporting
to PDF from Inkscape produces terrible letterspacing, even when
configuring relevant options to correct that.
Now, I am only faced with converting 20 PDF files, ten pages each, one
page at a time! I am afraid that the pressure of the upcoming exam
(for which I am reading these files in the first place) will cause me
to delay my learning of the Inkscape scripting abilities until after
the exam. I will, however, update this thread when (if) I do come to a
conclusion and succeed in crafting a method of reliably removing
embedded fonts from PDF documents.
Thank you Florian, and Mumia, and everyone else who got me this far.
We have explored a lot of options, and learned much.
Dotan Cohen
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