On mine I get the message "Can't read the embedded font" but the font appears to be the one I embedded and I don't see any messages about "Using font...instead".
-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Lehmkühler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 9:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: RE: Font choices and error messages Hi, Gesendet: Mo, 14. Mrz 2011 Von: David Sills<[email protected]> > That, of course, wasn't actually the question, much as I appreciate > the humor. Should I worry about these messages? Does this indicate a > problem is BIRT? In PDFBox? It's a PDFBox issue. You don't have to worry about these messages as long as the substitution works for you. > -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Lehmkühler [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Font choices and error messages > > Hi, > > Gesendet: So, 13. Mrz 2011 Von: David Sills<[email protected]> > > All: > > > > A quick question: I keep getting these error messages on my server > > when trying to print documents created by BIRT (I don't see any such > > fonts in the report design XML file, incidentally, as > > "BRASZZ+Arial-BoldMT" or the others): > > > > 2011-03-12 15:02:01,821 INFO > > [org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDCIDFontType2Font] - Can't read the > > embedded font BRASZZ+Arial-BoldMT > > 2011-03-12 15:02:01,821 INFO > > [org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDCIDFontType2Font] - Can't read the > > embedded font BRASZZ+Arial-BoldMT > > 2011-03-12 15:02:01,821 INFO > > [org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDCIDFontType2Font] - Using font > > Arial Bold instead > > 2011-03-12 15:02:01,821 INFO > > [org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDCIDFontType2Font] - Using font > > Arial Bold instead ....... > The CID encoded fonts are using a embedded subset of a true type font, > which is currently not supported. In such cases a similar font > substitutes the missing one. See [1] for further details. > > > > The documents come out fine on the printer, but these worry me a little. > > Should they? > Obviously in your case the font substitution works fine :-) > > BR > Andreas Lehmkühler > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-490 BR Andreas Lehmkühler

