Exporting Excel files to PDF - TMS Software

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................................. I
INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................... 1
CREATING PDF FILES ............................................................................................................................................. 1
INTRODUCTION: ............................................................................................................................................................ 1
USING PDFWRITER......................................................................................................................................................... 1
USING FLEXCELPDFEXPORT ........................................................................................................................................... 2
PREPARING A FILE FOR PRINTING ....................................................................................................................... 2
FONT MANAGEMENT ........................................................................................................................................... 4
SELECTING WHICH FONTS TO USE .................................................................................................................................... 4
ACCESSING TRUE TYPE DATA. ........................................................................................................................................ 5
FONTS IN IOS AND OSX ................................................................................................................................................ 6
FONTS IN ANDROID ....................................................................................................................................................... 6
GOING UNMANAGED ................................................................................................................................................... 6
FONTS AND EXCEL 2007 ...................................................................................................................................... 7
SETTING THE “NORMAL” FONT ........................................................................................................................................ 8
DEALING WITH MISSING FONTS AND GLYPHS .................................................................................................................... 9
Problem 1: Missing fonts .............................................................................................................................. 10
Problem 2: Missing Glyphs .......................................................................................................................... 11
Problem 3: Faux Italics and Bolds .............................................................................................................. 11
SIGNING PDF FILES ............................................................................................................................................. 13
CUSTOMIZING THE SIGNING ENGINE ............................................................................................................................. 14
1. TPdfSigner: ................................................................................................................................................ 14
2. TPdfSignerFactory: ................................................................................................................................... 14
EXPORT TO PDF AND FLEXCEL RECALCULATION ............................................................................................. 15
USING FLEXCELPDFEXPORT ON MONO (LINUX) .............................................................................................. 15