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John Hewson resolved PDFBOX-1959.
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Resolution: Fixed
Fixed by PDFBOX-2262, we used system fonts in the end.
> Remove AWT Fonts
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> Key: PDFBOX-1959
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1959
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Rendering
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: John Hewson
> Fix For: 2.0.0
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> Since PDFBOX-1844 added the Type 1 font parser, there is no need to use AWT
> any more for font rendering. We should remove all calls to AWT string drawing
> methods.
> However, 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.
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