4.6 Font types

There are several types of fonts available in Polybios.

Base14 font:

The built-in font of PDF. Available in all viewer applications.

Type1 font:

A font format used by PostScript.

TrueType font:

Widely used outline font format.

CID font:

Font format for multi-byte characters. Developed by Adobe.

Hollywood scripts can use doc:GetFont() to get a font handle. Before that, one of the following functions must be used to load the font before invoking doc:GetFont(): (except for Base14 fonts, those are always available and needn't be loaded)

HPDF_LoadType1FontFromFile() HPDF_LoadTTFontFromFile() HPDF_LoadTTFontFromFile2() HPDF_UseCNSFonts() HPDF_UseCNTFonts() HPDF_UseJPFonts() HPDF_UseKRFonts()