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

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