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Tilman Hausherr edited comment on PDFBOX-2262 at 8/18/14 10:13 PM: ------------------------------------------------------------------- rendering no longer fails for ApacheConPDFBox.pdf (p32) PDFBOX-1094-094730.pdf p3 now ok, but not p8 PDFBOX-1442.pdf PDFBOX-1879.pdf PDFBOX-2187-005541.pdf PDFBOX-2215-027073.pdf all the other problems are still there. was (Author: tilman): rendering no longer fails for PDFBOX-2187-005541.pdf PDFBOX-2215-027073.pdf all the other problems are still there. (I have not yet tested with the latest change, only the first two) > Remove usage of AWT fonts > ------------------------- > > Key: PDFBOX-2262 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2262 > Project: PDFBox > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: PDModel, Rendering > Affects Versions: 2.0.0 > Reporter: John Hewson > Assignee: John Hewson > Attachments: PDFBOX-1094-094730.pdf-1.png, PDFBOX-1770.pdf-1.png, > bugzilla886049.pdf, bugzilla886049.pdf-1.png > > > We're still using AWT fonts to render the "standard 14" built-in fonts, which > causes rendering problems and encoding issues (see PDFBOX-2140). We're also > using AWT for some fallback fonts. > Removal of these AWT fonts isn't too difficult, we need to load the fonts > using the existing PDFFontManager mechanism which has recently been added. > All missing TrueType fonts loaded from disk have been using SystemFontManager > for a number of weeks now. > We should ship some sensible default fonts with PDFBox, such as the > Liberation fonts (see PDFBOX-2169, PDFBOX-2263), in case PDFFontManager can't > find anything suitable, rather than falling back to the default TTF font, but > by default we'll probe the system for suitable fonts. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)