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Maruan Sahyoun commented on PDFBOX-3618:
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I think adding comments in source code and generating error messages won't
resolve the issue you are describing. Further more it's not on us to provide
statements about the quality of font resources nor do we have the capability
and capacity to review these. If we add one or two we will leave out the many
more who are trusted resources. Why list only free fonts? What's wrong with
commercial licenses? If we add a rescue today do we know that the information
is still valid later. E.g. the license terms for Arial Unicode MS changed over
time.
If you look at fonts what about other resources such as color profiles, images,
.... and source code. All of these have legal terms.
> Helvetica in PDF/A - warn in PDType1Font.java about licensing issues
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> 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
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> Attachments: CreatePDFA3618.patch
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> 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?
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