• Introduction
• PDFBox & Fonts
• Font Repositories
• Unicode & Text Processing
• CSS & Web Fonts
• Font Embedding
• Bidirectional Text (Bidi) & RTL
• References

Introduction

This post compiles useful resources for working with fonts, PDF generation, Unicode text processing, and web typography. Whether you’re dealing with Arabic text in PDFs, implementing web fonts, or working with Unicode normalization, these resources provide essential information and tools.

PDFBox & Fonts

Arabic Text in PDFBox

• Writing Arabic with PDFBOX with correct characters presentation form without being separated
• How To Display Arabic Text in PDFBox
• Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish text is written in reverse order in PDFBox 2.0.5

PDFBox Documentation & Examples

• PDFBox Document Creation
• PDFBox Working with Fonts
• PDFBox 2.0 Font Encoding FAQ
• PDFBox Source Code
• PDFBox Examples - EmbeddedFonts.java
• PDFBox Examples - CreateSimpleFormWithEmbeddedFont.java

Unicode Text in PDFBox

• Generation of PDF from HTML with non-Latin characters using ITextRenderer does not work
• How to write unicode text to pdf with pdfbox?
• Using Java PDFBox library to write Russian PDF
• PDFBox “special” characters in Helvetica

Font Repositories

Google Fonts

• Google Fonts
• Noto Fonts
• Noto Fonts Source

Liberation Fonts

• Liberation Fonts

Adobe Fonts

• Adobe Fonts GitHub
• Adobe Blank
• Adobe notdef

Adobe Type Tools

• Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO)

Unicode & Text Processing

Unicode Standards

• Unicode Home
• Unicode Normalization (TR15)
• Unicode Charts
• Unicode Character Lookup
• Unicode Character Info

Combining Diacritical Marks 组合附加符号

• Combining Diacritical Marks (English)
• Combining Diacritical Marks (中文)
• Unicode FAQ: Characters and Combining Marks

Unicode Processing

• Remove accents/diacritics in a string in JavaScript
• How to combine unicode characters?
• How to convert Combining Diacritical Marks to single grapheme
• Composing unicode characters in Java?
• Algorithm to check for combining characters in Unicode
• Normalizing Text (Java Tutorial)
• Unicode equivalence

Text Processing

• Split on non arabic characters

CSS & Web Fonts

Font Stacks & Fallbacks

• CSS Basics: Fallback Font Stacks for More Robust Web Typography
• System Font Stack
• CSS Font Stack
• CSS Font Stack - Century Gothic
• CSS Font Stack - Calibri
• CSS Font Stack - Trebuchet MS

@font-face

• How to use @font-face in CSS
• Unicode range in @font-face
• The importance of @font-face source order when used with preload
• When using CSS @font-face, in what order do browsers use the different types?

Web Font Optimization

• Optimize WebFont loading and rendering

Google Fonts CSS

• Noto Sans SC CSS

Font Embedding

• Difference between full embedded fonts and embedded subset

iText

• iText eBooks

Bidirectional Text (Bidi) & RTL

• ICU Bidi API Documentation
• Improving Arabic and Hebrew text in map labels

References

1. PDFBox
2. Google Fonts
3. Unicode Consortium
4. CSS-Tricks
5. Adobe Type Tools

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