Re: Microsoft Word Embedded Font

Hi Character,

Do you mean the metrics or the outlines themselves?

Particularly the TTF font tables (i.e. name, glyf, etc. ).

It doesn't. Embedded fonts in MS Office products are encrypted and
cannot be extracted. They're not even activated except for the
document that contains them. Incidentally; in Word 97 and earlier, if
the embedding flag was "installable" and the font wasn't already
installed, Word would install it right then and there! That loophole
has been tightly closed in more recent versions.

If this is the case, then the only way to extract the font tables is
by using the WinApi GetFontData?

Adobe Acrobat Reader hasn't put embedded fonts into the temp directory
since Version 3.1 (and it's now up to Version 8). And even then, for
Type 1 fonts, only the font outlines (equivalent to the .pfb file)
were there. Font metrics (the .pfm file) aren't even embedded in pdf
documents in the first place. I'm not sure whether the font metrics
are included in embedded Truetypes.

Hmmm. I've tried printing a PDF file and I saw a file Z@xxxxxxx
created in the TMP folder. I tried using the MS utility TTFDump on it
and I was able to extract the different font tables. I'm using Acrobat
Reader 7.0, btw.

I'm not sure what you mean by "rasterize to ASCII". As a phrase, it
doesn't make much sense.

Oh..sorry If I wasn't making any sense. All I wanted to say that I
wanted to display in ASCII a glyph outline.

ex.
Letter A

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