Hi all,
I'm using PDFBox 0.8 (Java) to render some PDFs as images, and I'm
running into problems with font rendering. For some documents (notably,
some test documents I've created using OpenOffice) all text is showing
up as squares.
Looking at one of the documents in Adobe Acrobat, the fonts that are
being used are:
Arial-BoldMT (Embedded Subset)
Type: TrueType
Encoding: Built-in
TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT (Embedded Subset)
Type: TrueType
Encoding: Built-in
TimesNewRomanPSMT (Embedded Subset)
Type: TrueType
Encoding: Built-in
Verdana-Bold (Embedded Subset)
Type: TrueType
Encoding: Built-in
I would have thought that Times Roman at least would have matched
against the default fonts.
Regardless of that, I've set up a PDFBox_External_font.properties to map
any unknown fonts to Arial, so I'd expect to see Arial being used rather
than just getting squares. My properties file is:
UNKNOWN_FONT=Resources/ttf/arial.ttf
I've created it as Resources/PDFBox_External_Font.properties and it is
on the class path (the same class path as the rest of my classes). I've
copied arial.ttf into the referenced location.
My first question is, should the above fonts display normally? Secondly,
if they can't be used, why isn't my default arial font being used?
Thanks.
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