Thank you Tilman.
And again, I appreciate your swift response.

Regards,
Larry Lynn

On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 11:51 AM Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Am 13.01.2026 um 19:36 schrieb Larry Lynn via users:
> > Thank you for the swift response Tilman.  Much appreciated.
> >
> > I've passed on your response to my point of contact in our legal
> > department.  She asked if you or any other committers would be willing to
> > delete the sensitive TTF file after you're done using it for any sort of
> > troubleshooting or development.
>
> YES of course (me).
>
> Tilman
>
>
> >
> > Thanks and Regards,
> > Larry Lynn
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 11:07 AM Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Send it to tilman (at) snafu (dot) de and to other committers who ask
> >> for it.
> >>
> >> Or upload it zipped + encrcypted to a sharehoster and send just the
> >> password to that address.
> >>
> >> Tilman
> >>
> >> Am 13.01.2026 um 18:46 schrieb Larry Lynn via users:
> >>> Hello and happy new year.
> >>>
> >>> We've experienced a text placement issue when creating a PDF with
> PDFBox
> >>> and using a proprietary font owned by one of our customers.  We suspect
> >>> that this issue is related to font embedding and font subsetting.
> >>> We are using PDFBox 3.0.5.
> >>>
> >>> We re-tested using an old version of PDFBox version 2.x.  The problem
> did
> >>> not reproduce.  We believe we've found a regression.
> >>>
> >>> We'd like to submit a bug report, but we think that if we raised a Jira
> >>> ticket in the PDFBox system and uploaded the TTF file for the font as
> an
> >>> attachment to the ticket, that this would essentially redistribute the
> >> font
> >>> to the world at large.  We do currently have permission from our
> customer
> >>> to redistribute the font.  We are unaware of any way to reproduce the
> >> issue
> >>> without the TTF.
> >>>
> >>> Does a mechanism exist to share a file privately with the PDFBox
> library
> >>> maintainers without making it publicly available to everyone on the
> >>> internet?  If so, maybe we could send a copy of the TTF of the font
> >> through
> >>> that private channel and still demonstrate bug reproduction.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks and Regards,
> >>> Larry Lynn
> >>>
> >>> p.s.  We really appreciate all of the great work you've done on the
> >> PDFBox
> >>> library.
> >>>
> >>
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