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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-1069:
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After looking at the old code, I can tell it fails here:
{code}
FontManager.getStandardFont();
log.info("Using font "+awtFont.getName()+ " instead");
{code}
The standard font in FontManager is "helvetica". I have improved the error
message so if this ever happens again with any OS, we'll see what fonts are
available there and choose a second standard font. This was done in rev 1589213
in the 1.8 branch and rev 1589214 in the trunk.
> Ubuntu throws exceptions when fonts missing
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-1069
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1069
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: PDModel
> Affects Versions: 1.6.0
> Environment: Ubuntu 10.10
> Reporter: Sarah Kelley
> Attachments: sakelley_pdf_rendering_problem.zip
>
>
> On a plain vanilla Ubuntu 10.10 install, running
> run-all failed to render any text, and threw lots of exceptions:
>
>
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.getawtFont(PDTrueTypeFont.java:425)
>
> ...however, installing the package "ttf-mscorefonts-installer"
> made those exceptions go away.
> (ubuntu1010_output.txt shows the exceptions; ubuntu1010_try2_output.txt is a
> run after the extra fonts are installed)
>
> Might be able to fix this one by setting UNKNOWN_FONT in
> Resources/PDFBox_External_Fonts.properties, but it would seem like
> it should choose some reasonable default if it isn't set...
> shouldn't it?
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