@Tilman, Thank you for the record-breaking fast response!
qz-print can certainly migrate to JDK6 if needed. The project only use the silent print feature (no bouncycastle, no advanced logging). Would I be a good usecase for 2.0.0 or should I hold off for a milestone release? - [email protected] On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]>wrote: > Yes this is a known problem. PDFBOX 2.0 has a much improved font > rendering. But that one needs JDK 6 :-( > Tilman > > Am 26.02.2014 06:41, schrieb Tres Finocchiaro: > > Hi, I'm the author of qz-print and for our next release, we're switching >> from pdf-renderer to pdf-box. >> >> Things are working pretty well in terms of integration, however I've >> noticed that fonts seem to render a bit off on some platforms. >> >> After investigating this, I decided to make the output a bit more verbose >> and go this: >> >> INFO: Couldn't load VYQQAT+Arial, using font Arial instead >> >>> INFO: Couldn't load QTPJOZ+TimesNewRoman, using font Times New Roman >>> instead >>> >> >> From my research the ABCDEF+Font names are embedded fonts, which from my >> little experience reading the PDFBOX source code there is some form of >> support for embedded fonts. >> >> Reactively, I've created some improved font mapping for Ubuntu ( >> http://jsfiddle.net/LpBLw/) but I have to ask, am I doing something wrong >> that is preventing embedded fonts from loading? >> >> FYI - I compile my program using JDK5. >> >> Here's the source tree I'm working from: >> https://github.com/qzindustries/qz-print/tree/master/pdfbox_1.8.4_qz >> >> Any help is greatly appreciated and thank you for the excellent work! >> >> -Tres >> >> >> - [email protected] >> >> >
