Am 06.04.2015 um 21:16 schrieb Eric Douglas:
Adobe provides the AFM...
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/font.html
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/font/pdfs/Core14_AFMs.zip
Their 14 fonts are supposed to always work on every device.
http://www.verypdf.com/document/pdf-format-reference/pg_0416.htm
Yes, because the viewer must have the font available. I found the font
in a very old installation of Acrobat Reader. I can't find it in the
current one, I assume it is hidden somehow.
Tilman
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
[Please correct me if I'm wrong...]
ZapfDingbats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapf_Dingbats ) is a
copyrighted
font. Therefore it breaks copyright to copy it without permission. Since
PDFBox is Open (has a distribution compatible with the Open Definition (
http://opendefinition.org/ ) which allows anyone to copy, modify and
re-use
it), it cannot include materials which have restrictive licences (and may
require purchase).
PDFBox relies on the target OS distribution to include some of the 14
fonts. Since Windows doesn't have ZapfDingbats it is missing by default and
PDFBox cannot rectify this.
This will also mean that anyone who has separately licensed ZapfDingbats
(or an equivalent with a restrictive licence) cannot include them in
derivative works of PDFBox.
The problem would appear to arise from the PDF standard requiring a
copyrighted font.
P.
P.
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 5:31 PM, John Hewson <j...@jahewson.com> wrote:
On 6 Apr 2015, at 08:59, Eric Douglas <edoug...@blockhouse.com> wrote:
ZapfDingbats should be there, shouldn't have to substitute, as you
mentioned.
No, these are not the same issues. PDFBox should always be able to
provide
ZapfDingbats but that font doesn't ship with Windows, so we need to
substitute it for Windings on that platform. On the Mac this isn't a
problem.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1900
John Hewson
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jahewson>
added
a comment - 11/Feb/14 00:55
This is a PDFBox bug. Zapf Dingbats is one of the standard 14 fonts
that
should always work without being embedded.
As mentioned on that bug report, I had actually created this PDF using
iText, which doesn't appear to give any way to embed the font.
I got a rendering problem on pdfbox trying to read this PDF back in,
because this font is not embedded or installed, though Adobe renders it
just fine.
This will likely come up again someday, though I worked around this for
now, since as I mentioned this is a PDF I'm creating. I changed this
instance to render to the Graphics using the original object I created
it
from instead of reading the PDF after it's created.
I will test that ExternalFonts.addSubstitute when I get time, as
another
workaround.
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