[jira] [Resolved] (PDFBOX-1959) Remove AWT Fonts

2014-09-01 Thread John Hewson (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1959?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] John Hewson resolved PDFBOX-1959. - Resolution: Fixed Fixed by PDFBOX-2262, we used system fonts in the end. > Remove AWT Fo

Re: Remove AWT Fonts

2014-03-05 Thread Andreas Lehmkühler
Hi, Am 03.03.14 21:20, schrieb John Hewson: Hi All I wanted to bring PDFBOX-1959 to the attention of the mailing list. PDFBox is ready to leave AWT font rendering behind as the JDKs rendering has proven to be buggy and we now have our own renderers for all font types in 2.0.0. Before we can

Re: Remove AWT Fonts

2014-03-04 Thread John Hewson
We have open issues due to missing or buggy platform fonts for the standard 14 set. Continuing to use platform fonts will not solve this problem. We should try to find some good open source fonts, if they are not good enough then we can look at other options, but we should at least try. -- John

Re: Remove AWT Fonts

2014-03-04 Thread Maruan Sahyoun
John, I don’t understand why we do have to ship fonts. We didn’t ship fonts until now but were dependent on platform fonts through AWT. So the situation won’t change. For legal reasons we won’t be able to use the fonts Adobe uses and I doubt that there are open source fonts which provide the

Re: Remove AWT Fonts

2014-03-04 Thread John Hewson
Maruan > what I was having in mind is something similar to Apache FOP’s auto detect > feature for fonts. Yeah, this looks good, we could use this for finding missing embedded fonts. > For inclusion these are some additional candidates > > https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/ (SIL license

Re: Remove AWT Fonts

2014-03-04 Thread Maruan Sahyoun
Hi John, what I was having in mind is something similar to Apache FOP’s auto detect feature for fonts. doc: https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.1/fonts.html code: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/autodetect/ Fo inclusion these are some additiona

Re: Remove AWT Fonts

2014-03-04 Thread John Hewson
Hi Maruan Java provides access to platform fonts via AWT and does not reveal the paths to the fonts which it finds, so it is not practical to use platform fonts without using AWT. There have also been a number of problems with some unix platforms which lack some of the standard 14 fonts or whic

Re: Remove AWT Fonts

2014-03-04 Thread Maruan Sahyoun
Hi John, what about just using the platform fonts? If not then Latex uses the URW++ fonts which were made available under the http://www.latex-project.org/lppl license. (same fonts are used by Ghostscript). Could check if the license is fine with ours. BR Maruan Sahyoun Am 03.03.2014 um 21:20

Remove AWT Fonts

2014-03-03 Thread John Hewson
Hi All I wanted to bring PDFBOX-1959 to the attention of the mailing list. PDFBox is ready to leave AWT font rendering behind as the JDKs rendering has proven to be buggy and we now have our own renderers for all font types in 2.0.0. Before we can do this we need to ship a set of standard 14 fo

[jira] [Updated] (PDFBOX-1959) Remove AWT Fonts

2014-03-03 Thread John Hewson (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1959?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] John Hewson updated PDFBOX-1959: Fix Version/s: 2.0.0 > Remove AWT Fonts > > > Key:

[jira] [Created] (PDFBOX-1959) Remove AWT Fonts

2014-03-03 Thread John Hewson (JIRA)
John Hewson created PDFBOX-1959: --- Summary: Remove AWT Fonts Key: PDFBOX-1959 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1959 Project: PDFBox Issue Type: Improvement Components