[iText-questions] Embedding a licensed font

[Dan Kristensen]

Hi!

In a previous post, Paulo Soares answered what could be done for using licensed font's in pdf.:

See below....

But how can you actually embed a licensed font into a pdf-file, when you are using iText...

I've looked in the file TrueTypeFont.java, and can see, that it ALWAYS throws a DocumentException, when reading a font with the fsType set to 2 in the WindowsMetrics class.

Paulo said, that the font could be licensed from Bigelow & Holmes, but HOW do you then use it in iText ???



Dan Kristensen



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken AtPdi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 16:09
Subject: [iText-questions] Fonts


> We generate graphs in Java's Graphics2D and use iText to generate PDFs
> for
> display on the Web using the accepted practices shown in the tutorial
> and
> the examples.  The fonts that we use for headings, etc. are 2 of the
> 'standard' fonts included with the JDK/JRE - Lucida Sans and Lucida
> Bright.
>
> We have been running in production under iText version 0.93 for the last
>
> year or so.  Because of some positioning issues, we upgraded to 1.0,
> tested
> everything in Windows and began testing in preparation for deployment on
> a
> Unix server.  We changed none of the font references in the code nor did
> we
> touch the fonts on the machine, but under the new version of iText we
> get
> the following error:
>
> "com.lowagie.text.DocumentException:
> /opt/customer/weblogic/jdk131/jre/lib/fonts/LucidaSansRegular.ttf cannot
> be
> embedded due to licensing restrictions"
>
> In looking back at the archive, a previous posting indicaes that there
> is a
> "...licensing issue...with the font itself...".
>
> Questions:
> 1)  Was iText upgraded to check the font's licensing restrictions for
> this
> subsequent to the 0.93 release?

iText now respects the font licensing flag.

> 2)  These fonts are those included with the JDK/JRE.  Where do we go to
> arrange proper licensing, Sun?

Sun includes those fonts for Java use and obviously doesn't want them used
for anything else. You can:

- change iText to ignore the restrictions

- license the fonts from Bigelow & Holmes

- use other fonts. Probably the PDF built in fonts are more than suitable.
The fonts included in Java are there for the benefit of those platforms that
don't have decent fonts and for uniformity. They are not that special.

- use PdfContentByte.createGraphicsShapes()

Best Regards,
Paulo Soares


>
> Thank you
>
> Ken B
> Personnel Decisions International
>
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