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John Hewson updated PDFBOX-919:
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Component/s: (was: PDModel)
Writing
> Make custom fonts reusable / get font reference from document.
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> Key: PDFBOX-919
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-919
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Writing
> Affects Versions: 1.3.1
> Environment: Windows XP; 32 Bit; JDK 1.6.0_22.
> Reporter: MH
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> When writing generic code to change PDF documents (concatenate PDFs, add
> custom text, etc.), some functions using a custom font can be called multiple
> times. As it is not possible to simply cash the PDFont instances (see bug 809
> => COSVisitorException) as they are probably hard linked to a document
> instance, it should be possible to request the font from the document to
> re-use it.
> Example: 2 documents use both the same custom font. When I concatenate them
> and add additional text with my custom font, the result has 3 times this font
> embedded! Instead of creating new instances of the custom font on every
> (generic) call of an application method, it would be better to somehow "tell"
> PDFBox, that the custom font is already in the PDF that I want to change. So
> a method like
> PDFont f = myPDDocument.getFont()
> would be usefull to avoid multiple inclusions of the same font on a document.
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