I have had problems reading and using PDF files that were created in another application and using embedded fonts. My simple matter was to print these PDFs. But there was always a font substitution used by pdfbox that really did not work for me.
I think there is an open issue regarding this and it would be nice to see it resolved. If I remember right the problem was related to an incomplete font descriptor or maybe the whole font library wasn't there. I have had to use another library to print PDFs but I don't like it. It is not as finished as this library. But at least it knows how to use the font library that is embedded in the PDF. On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 15:54 -0400, Eric Douglas wrote: > I'll look into that JIRA, thanks. > The pdfbox error in the original message below shows the class and method > producing this message in the Java log. > > Digging a little deeper, this is caused by the pdfbox method: > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFontDescriptorDictionary.getFontFile2() > > This is trying to read the "FontFile2" key which was written by FOP. > org.apache.fop.pdf.PDFFontDescriptor.setFontFile() > > One of these is missing something. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Lehmkuehler [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 3:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How to make embedded font readable? > > Hi, > > Am 12.09.2011 15:31, schrieb Eric Douglas: > > FOP created the PDF. Pdfbox is trying to read it. > > I'm not sure which end is missing what. > > I'm embedding fonts and pdfbox says there's something there it can't > > read. > I guess it is an issue with PDFBox, but without a sample PDF it's only a > guess. > Please create an issue on JIRA [1] and attach a sample pdf to it. > > > Sep 12, 2011 9:18:12 AM > > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDCIDFontType2Font getawtFont > > INFO: Can't read the embedded font EAAAAD+LucidaSans-Typewriter > > > BR > Andreas Lehmkühler > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX >
