Hi,
Am 03.03.14 21:20, schrieb John Hewson:
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.
Apache OpenOffice uses DejaVu fonts [1] and the OpenSymbol font [2].
Cheers
-- John
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
[1]
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/ext_sources/f872f4ac066433d8ff92f5e316b36ff9-dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.33.zip?view=log
[2]
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/main/extras/source/truetype/symbol/
