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 schrieb John Hewson <[email protected]>: > 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 fonts with PDFBox > as currently the system fonts are being used via AWT. We also need to provide > a mechanism for the user to supply their own external fonts for cases where > embedded fonts are missing. > > The main question is, what fonts should we ship? Some of the "free" fonts > I've seen render very poorly, any suggestions? Furthermore, are there fonts > under more restrictive licenses which we could ship? Apache does allow for > such files to be part of a project under certain conditions. > > Also: Adobe has some font packs, e.g. Japanese, which we could point users > towards. > > Cheers > > -- John
