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Ben Manes commented on PDFBOX-4774:
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I realized a workaround, which is very much a hack, but enough to unblock me.
In addition to static locations, {{UnixFontDirFinder}} also searches in a
dynamic path:
{code:java}
System.getProperty("user.home") + "/.fonts"
{code}
While this goes to a non-writeable generated path, e.g. {{/home/sbx_user1051}},
it can be overwritten because there is no security manager. This lets me set
the property because PdfBox initializes, e.g.
{code:java}
System.setProperty("user.home", System.getenv("LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT"));
{code}
Then my lambda distribution adds {{src/main/resources/.fonts}} with the extra
fonts. This allows for the nicer rendering in {{fixed_page.jpg}}.
It is surely a hack and not a proper solution, so this feature would be nice
for others going forward.
> Add AWS Lambda support to FontFileFinder
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-4774
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4774
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ben Manes
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: fixed_page.jpg, original.pdf, rendered_page.jpg
>
>
> The font directory finder is hard coded based on the operating system and is
> not directly extensible. Instead, if I understand correctly, the fonts have
> to be explicitly declared in a {{PDFBox_External_Fonts.properties}} file.
> AWS Lambda includes only minimal fonts in its linux distribution. For some
> documents this is too limiting, so on our EC2 instances we install
> {{msttcorefonts}}, {{ttf-aenigma}}, and {{fonts-tuffy}}. These go into
> {{/usr/share/fonts}} which the {{UnixFontDirFinder}} inspects.
> AWS Lambda will unzip the distribution into {{/var/task}}, will unzip layers
> into {{/opt}} only allows tasks to otherwise write to {{/tmp}}. The common
> recommendation for fonts is to include them in the lambda, reference them at
> {{/var/task/fonts}}, and set {{FONTCONFIG_PATH}} to that path for headless
> tasks like Chrome's print-to-pdf.
> Since PdfBox does not use font-config this solution does not work. Ideally it
> would be nice if one could specify a custom {{FontDirFinder}} or add custom
> directories (such as by a system property if not API). Alternatively, PdfBox
> could include reasonable default locations if the environmental variable
> {{LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT}} is set.
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