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Robert Amidon commented on PDFBOX-5905:
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I was able to confirm that installing {{MS-Gothic}} does work in this instance,
but the only way I've found to reliably get it is to copy/paste the font file
from an existing Windows installation. Unless I'm missing something,
{{ttf-mscorefonts-installer}} does not include it.
[~tilman] Could the substitute list in {{FontMapperImpl.java}} be expanded to
include DejaVuSans? If not, is there some other convenient way to obtain
MS-Gothic that you know of?
> Many ZapfDingbats symbols do not appear when page is rendered.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-5905
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5905
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.0.32, 3.0.3 PDFBox
> Environment: Ubuntu 22.04
> Reporter: Robert Amidon
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: missing_symbols.png
>
>
> We've encountered some PDFs that have characters written using the
> ZapfDingbats symbol font. On Windows PdfBox recreates the symbols
> appropriately, but when testing on Ubuntu 22.04 we've noticed that many
> symbols, such as the heavy checkmark (U+2714) are missing. Instead an empty
> character is produced.
> Upon debugging it appears that the PdfBox toolkit substitutes the
> ZapfDingbats font for some other font instead. In our observation, the code
> attempts to fallback to "Helvetica," but because this font is not present the
> last-resort "LiberationSans" is selected instead. This font is not capable of
> displaying the heavy checkmark symbol (a20/U+2714) and hence it is missing
> when the PDF page is rendered to an image. The following appears in the Debug
> console:
> {quote}
> WARNING: Using fallback font LiberationSans for ZapfDingbats
> {quote}
> While debugging, if we inject the font name "DejaVuSans" into the variable
> for "fallbackName" in the {{FontMapperImpl::getFontBoxFont(String,
> PDFontDescriptor)}} method, then DejaVuSans is instead resolved as the base
> font and the heavy checkmark symbol (and others) is drawn correctly.
> It's not clear to us why a more appropriate font is not chosen in this
> instance. It results in many ZapfDingbats symbols missing when the page is
> rendered.
> [This PDF
> file|https://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/TestSuite/contrib/XEP/Tests/zapf-dingbats.pdf]
> demonstrates the problem.
> h2. Steps to Reproduce:
> # Create a Java project and import PdfBox v2.0.32
> # Execute the below code snippet, substituting the placeholder file paths for
> real ones on your system, on Ubuntu 22.04
> # Observe that the image file that is produced is missing many symbols.
> {code}
> String inputPath = "zapf-dingbats.pdf";
> File pdfFile = new File(inputPath);
> try (PDDocument pdfDoc = PDDocument.load(pdfFile)) {
> PDFRenderer renderer = new PDFRenderer(pdfDoc);
> BufferedImage image = renderer.renderImage(0);
> String outputPath = "zapf-dingbats.ubuntu.png";
> try (OutputStream outFile = new FileOutputStream(outputPath)) {
> ImageIOUtil.writeImage(image, "PNG", outFile);
> }
> }
> catch (IOException e) {
> e.printStackTrace();
> }
> {code}
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