Hi Rob,
Thinking about this it would probably be easier to just include
fontbox.jar in the lib directory, since its an Apache project, its easy
enough to do that (no issues with licensing) We already have a few other
JARs from Apache projects in the lib directory, e.g. commons-io
What do others think?
Thanks,
Chris
On 29/05/2013 16:55, Robert Meyer wrote:
Sorry I worded that incorrectly. The changes I'm making to fontbox
will be applied to their project, though this is dependant on their
committers. I have already had one patch applied, so hopefully it
shouldn't be a problem with the other which I plan to put forward
soon. As such, we will just be referencing an existing compiled
version of their project.
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From: gl...@skynav.com
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 09:40:05 -0600
Subject: Re: Fontbox optional dependency
To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Robert Meyer <rme...@hotmail.co.uk
<mailto:rme...@hotmail.co.uk>> wrote:
Hi All,
Quick question related to this fontbox optional dependency being
added for OTF CFF. I am guessing that to allow this to work, FOP
will require the fontbox jar to be compiled, but optional when
run? If the user does not have fontbox when running, an error is
shown if a reference is made to a CFF font. This is just to
confirm that I don't need to make the OTF CFF code external to FOP
as a separate jar plugin so that FOP can be compiled without it.
When you say "require the fontbox jar to be compiled", do you mean
just reference an existing, released version of fontbox's JAR
artifact? Or are you referring to a forked version with FOP mods?
Thanks,
Robert Meyer
