Space issue with embedded Hindi Font

[marco-th]

What were you trying to do?

When I render Hindi text there are spaces between characters that should not be there. When I use the same font in e.g. Word the font works and displays the text correctly.

How did you attempt to do it?

Here is a minimal example to reproduce the issue: https://codesandbox.io/s/happy-lamarr-5qu6c6?file=/src/index.js:176-186

What actually happened?

This is how the text gets rendered in the PDF:

What did you expect to happen?

This is how the text should be rendered in the PDF:

How can we reproduce the issue?

Here is a minimal example to reproduce the issue: https://codesandbox.io/s/happy-lamarr-5qu6c6?file=/src/index.js:176-186

Version

latest

What environment are you running pdf-lib in?

Browser

Checklist

• [X] My report includes a Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable) Example.
• [X] I have attached all PDFs, images, and other files needed to run my SSCCE.

Additional Notes

No response

[pratik2575]

Same issue in Gujarati Font.

[manik-biradar007]

@marco-th and @pratik2575 I found solution for this, please email me at sandiponly4you at gmail.com

[Prat10]

I had the same issue? is there any solution

[PatelTilak]

You can fix this by adding { subset: true } while emending font.

pdfDoc.embedFont(customFontBytes, { subset: true });

[ephraimduncan]

I have the same issue with Caveat

[sridevi-dns]

You can fix this by adding { subset: true } while emending font.

pdfDoc.embedFont(customFontBytes, { subset: true });

This worked wonderfully for kannada as well..thanks a lot.