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Ralf Hauser edited comment on PDFBOX-3618 at 12/10/16 1:24 PM: --------------------------------------------------------------- If you "have enough fonts on your own PC anyway" - you won't care about font embedding PDF/A in the first place. Recent experience in a government context unfortunately shows that your 2nd statement is frighteningly wrong... was (Author: hau...@acm.org): If you "have enough fonts on your own PC anyway" - you won't care about PDF/A in the first place. Recent experience in a government context unfortunately shows that your 2nd statement is frighteningly wrong... > Helvetica in PDF/A - warn in PDType1Font.java about licensing issues > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PDFBOX-3618 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3618 > Project: PDFBox > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 2.0.3 > Reporter: Ralf Hauser > Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 2.0.4, 2.1.0 > > Attachments: CreatePDFA3618.patch > > > PDType1Font.java has a predefined list of fonts like Times-Roman, Helvetica, > Courier, Symbol and ZapfDingbats. > When creating a pdf/A, the font is embedded and not taken from the reader's > operating system. > As per https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica_(Schriftart) , this may lead > to a licensing issue. > Suggestions: > 1) Use a free font such as > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_Sans_L instead > 2) at least warn in JavaDoc about the issue > Or is it an non-issue? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org