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Ralf Hauser edited comment on PDFBOX-3618 at 12/7/16 5:10 PM:
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An exploring programmer will have serveral examples open and as s/he will most
likely not have a ttf-fontfile at hand, s/he'll see in another example that
PDType1Font standard fonts might the job and not realizing that this breaks the
pdf/a quality
65 // load the font as this needs to be embedded
66 PDFont font = PDType0Font.load(doc, new File(fontfile));
was (Author: [email protected]):
A exploring programmer will have serveral examples open and as s/he will most
likely not have a ttf-fontfile at hand, s/he'll see in another example that
PDType1Font standard fonts might the job and not realizing that this breaks the
pdf/a quality
65 // load the font as this needs to be embedded
66 PDFont font = PDType0Font.load(doc, new File(fontfile));
> Helvetica in PDF/A - warn in PDType1Font.java about licensing issues
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> Key: PDFBOX-3618
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3618
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 2.0.3
> Reporter: Ralf Hauser
> Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.0.4, 2.1.0
>
>
> PDType1Font.java has a predefined list of fonts like Times-Roman, Helvetica,
> Courier, Symbol and ZapfDingbats.
> When creating a pdf/A, the font is embedded and not taken from the reader's
> operating system.
> As per https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica_(Schriftart) , this may lead
> to a licensing issue.
> Suggestions:
> 1) Use a free font such as
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_Sans_L instead
> 2) at least warn in JavaDoc about the issue
> Or is it an non-issue?
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