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Options - Font Mappings

Allows you to resolve font incompatibilities or substitute fonts during conversion
Default mapping is Helvetica



In a PDF file, fonts may be named using a variety of syntaxes. For example, a common font like Arial with font attribute Bold might be stored as any of the following: Arial,Bold, FYBWDX+Arial,Bold, ArialMT-Bold, Gen_ArialBold. This presents a problem since the same font may be installed on two different systems under different names making them incompatible.

Without adding font mappings, pdf2cad will reproduce the font names in DXF exactly as it finds them in the PDF original. Since DXF references fonts instead of embedding them, the text relies on its font being available for rendering in the target application. For example, most systems have Arial Bold installed. However, when if the DXF file specifies Arial Bold differently that the system does, the CAD application will not be able to match them when opening the file. It will substitute it with whatever font it thinks makes sense. To overcome these system incompatibilities, pdf2cad offers the ability add font mappings for the software to apply during conversion from PDF to DXF. You can also use this feature to substitute fonts during conversion, for example from Courier to Times New Roman.

Click on Add Mapping… to add a new font name mapping.
Click on Modify Mapping… to change the existing font name mapping currently highlighted
Click on Remove Mapping...to delete the existing font name mapping(s) currently highlighted

If pdf2cad finds unknown font names in the PDF during conversion, it will give you a Warning in the Conversion Report. You can then see a list of those font names in the associated log-file. See the Advanced Options section for further instructions.
 

For the Original Font Face, copy the font name exactly as it was found in the PDF original.
  • For the Original Style, select Normal unless the text was already in the right font style (Bold, Italic, Bold-Italic) in the initial DXF results.
  • For the New Font Face, use the exact syntax that your target application uses for the desired font.
  • For the New Style, choose the desired style.
     
    Note: special font styles like Narrow, ExtraBold, Black, Oblique and Light are not font styles that you can specify as a font style in pdf2cad. Add them to the new font name, so that your target application may recognize them. You can also choose the closest regular font style.