[Devel] PDF Font embedding

[Salman Khilji]

While searching thru the archives, I came across a reply to a thread by   
Vadim Plessky <address@hidden> in which he said:

"I wrote for my former employer the code for using FreeType to get the 
information necessary to embed fonts in PDF files.  I've been meaning to 
rewrite it and add it to the FreeType distro"

I was wondering if this work is available as this is precisely what I would 
like to do.

I am working on an open source C++ based PDF library (similar to iText Java 
PDF library).  I am thinking about using freetype to perform font metrics 
computation, font rendering, and possibly font embedding.

While I thought about "stealing" the font parsing,/subsetting code from iText 
and simply porting it to C++, I think using FreeType may be better.  Has 
anyone else done work in this line?  Can someone enlighten me as to what is 
involved?  I am reading the PDF spec and it seems to be pretty involved.

I would like to include support for Font subsetting and Unicode support for 
both Type 1 and TrueType fonts.

Salman