Aspose font behavior vs Indesign font behavior

Hello,

I’m running into a strange issue where the expected behavior for embedding a font differs from the behavior with indesign. When my code adds a page with text using the OTF font ApfelGrotezRegular it’s added as ApfelGrotezRegular(Embedded OpenType) but for the page our indesign user added it’s listed as ApfelGrotez-Regular (Embedded).

Further if I run the Acrobat preflight profile Digital printing (B/W) it throws an error about “Text uses OpenType font”. But if I convert the otf file to ttf and rerun my java code the issue goes away. Is there something I should be doing when I generate the page and process the otf font?

Sample code
try(FileReader fr = new FileReader(Configuration.getInstance().getProperties().getProperty(“template.path”, “/path/to/boiler/plate/text.txt”))) {
try(BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr)) {
String line = br.readLine();

            while (line != null) {
                if (line.contains("\n")) {
                    final TextFragment fragmentNewLine = new TextFragment("");
                    fragmentNewLine.getTextState().setFont(FontRepository.findFont("ApfelGrotezk-Regular"));
                    //fragmentNewLine.getTextState().setFont(FontRepository.findFont("Helvetica LT Pro"));
                    fragmentNewLine.getTextState().setFontSize (8);
                    fragmentNewLine.getTextState().getFont().setEmbedded(true);
                    //fragmentNewLine.getTextState().setBackgroundColor(Color.fromCmyk(0.0,0.0,0.0,1.0));
                    //fragmentNewLine.getTextState().setForegroundColor(Color.fromCmyk(0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0));
                    paragraph.appendLine(fragmentNewLine);

                } else {
                    // Quick and dirty brute force replacement
                    line = line.replace("[ISBN]", this.liveTextSummary.getIsbn());
                    line = line.replace("[JOB_ID]", this.liveTextSummary.getDtqJobId());

                    final TextFragment fragment = new TextFragment(line);
                    fragment.getTextState().setFont(FontRepository.findFont("ApfelGrotezk-Regular"));
                    //fragment.getTextState().setFont(FontRepository.findFont("Helvetica LT Pro"));
                    fragment.getTextState().setFontSize (8);
                    fragment.getTextState().getFont().setEmbedded(true);
                    //fragment.getTextState().setBackgroundColor(Color.fromCmyk(0.0,0.0,0.0,1.0));
                    //fragment.getTextState().setForegroundColor(Color.fromCmyk(0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0));
                    paragraph.appendLine(fragment);
                }

                line = br.readLine();
            }

        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }

aspose otf vs ttf.png (11.1 KB)

preflight errors acrobat pro.png (55.2 KB)

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@dmauler1

Would you kindly share your sample source file(s), font file as well as the generated output with us? We will test the scenario in our environment and address it accordingly.