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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Limitations of 'pdftotext' in Linux... Post 303041373 by kenlenard on Friday 22nd of November 2019 12:06:04 AM
Old 11-22-2019
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Originally Posted by Neo
Well, as you know, sometimes people find fancy fonts they like, and then they want to use them.

One approach is to extract / list the fonts in the PDF files and log them.

Then over time you can see what are the offending fonts (assume that is the case).

Then, you can find a way to preprocess the PDF to strip / change / remove the pdftotext offending fonts.

Or, you can get the source code for pdftotext and try to recompile to support these new font families.

Naturally, the first step toward solving any problem is knowing what the problem is and it sound like you may have isolated it to non-supported pdftotext fonts.
Agreed. Okay, thanks again for the help. I appreciate the time and I like the utility that you suggested (PDF_Checker) and I will keep it in mind for future issues. I'm going to do a bit more homework and then report back to the customer on what I have found. I would also like to donate to the site. Is there a link for me to do that? Thanks again.
 

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DH_INSTALLXFONTS(1)						     Debhelper						       DH_INSTALLXFONTS(1)

NAME
dh_installxfonts - register X fonts SYNOPSIS
dh_installxfonts [debhelperoptions] DESCRIPTION
dh_installxfonts is a debhelper program that is responsible for registering X fonts, so their corresponding fonts.dir, fonts.alias, and fonts.scale be rebuilt properly at install time. Before calling this program, you should have installed any X fonts provided by your package into the appropriate location in the package build directory, and if you have fonts.alias or fonts.scale files, you should install them into the correct location under etc/X11/fonts in your package build directory. Your package should depend on xfonts-utils so that the update-fonts-* commands are available. (This program adds that dependency to ${misc:Depends}.) This program automatically generates the postinst and postrm commands needed to register X fonts. These commands are inserted into the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb. See dh_installdeb(1) for an explanation of how this works. NOTES
See update-fonts-alias(8), update-fonts-scale(8), and update-fonts-dir(8) for more information about X font installation. See Debian policy, section 11.8.5. for details about doing fonts the Debian way. SEE ALSO
debhelper(7) This program is a part of debhelper. AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> 8.9.0ubuntu2.1 2012-06-12 DH_INSTALLXFONTS(1)
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