Re: odds and ends

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> In the PDFlib doc, there is a form of exception handling for C of this variety:
> 
> 	PDF_TRY(myPDF) {
> 	    font_handle = PDF_findfont(myPDF, PDF_fontNameCur, "builtin", 1);
> 	}
> 	PDF_CATCH(myPDF) {
> 	    fprintf(stderr,"HEY!  I DON'T KNOW THIS FONT!!\n");
> 	    return;
> 	}
> 
> but I'm having no success (may be because I'm stuck back in the "helvetica" missing font mode).

A PDF file is corrupted once an exception occurs, so can't get back from that.  However, there is a way to lessen the font problems to returning a -1 rather than causing an exception:

    PDF_set_parameter(myPDF, "fontwarning", "false");

Almost works, but not quite...hmm

Dan