On Monday 08 February 2010 12:26:45 Samuel Penn wrote:
> 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)
> TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT (Embedded Subset)
> TimesNewRomanPSMT (Embedded Subset)
> Verdana-Bold (Embedded Subset)

This bug looks similar:

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-501

So I guess it's a bug rather than me doing something stupid.

Is there a workaround, such as forcing PDFBox to use a different
font rather than trying to use the embedded subset?

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