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Tilman Hausherr updated PDFBOX-3659:
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Description:
On a system with no fonts, it is not possible to create PDF files that use the
Standard 14 Symbol and Zapf Dingbats fonts. The current code tries to look at
the generic fallback font (LiberationSans), which of course doesn't have these
characters so an exception is thrown. But this lookup isn't needed - we have
all the metrics needed for the standard 14 fonts and don't need any actual font.
Solution: change {{PDType1Font.encode()}} so that it doesn't use the generic
font for standard 14 fonts.
was:
On a system with no fonts, it is not possible to create PDF files that use the
Standard 14 Symbol and Zapf Dingbats fonts. The current code tries to look at
the generic fallback font (LiberationSans), which of course doesn't have it.
But this isn't needed - we have all the metrics needed for the standard 14
fonts and don't need any actual font.
Solution: change {{PDType1Font.encode()}} so that it doesn't use the generic
font for standard 14 fonts.
> Can't create text with PDFType1Font.ZAPF_DINGBATS or PDFType1Font.SYMBOL
> without installed fonts
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> Key: PDFBOX-3659
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3659
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: PDModel
> Affects Versions: 2.0.4
> Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
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> On a system with no fonts, it is not possible to create PDF files that use
> the Standard 14 Symbol and Zapf Dingbats fonts. The current code tries to
> look at the generic fallback font (LiberationSans), which of course doesn't
> have these characters so an exception is thrown. But this lookup isn't needed
> - we have all the metrics needed for the standard 14 fonts and don't need any
> actual font.
> Solution: change {{PDType1Font.encode()}} so that it doesn't use the generic
> font for standard 14 fonts.
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