Adobe provides the AFM... http://www.adobe.com/devnet/font.html http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/font/pdfs/Core14_AFMs.zip
Their 14 fonts are supposed to always work on every device. http://www.verypdf.com/document/pdf-format-reference/pg_0416.htm On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > [Please correct me if I'm wrong...] > > ZapfDingbats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapf_Dingbats ) is a > copyrighted > font. Therefore it breaks copyright to copy it without permission. Since > PDFBox is Open (has a distribution compatible with the Open Definition ( > http://opendefinition.org/ ) which allows anyone to copy, modify and > re-use > it), it cannot include materials which have restrictive licences (and may > require purchase). > > PDFBox relies on the target OS distribution to include some of the 14 > fonts. Since Windows doesn't have ZapfDingbats it is missing by default and > PDFBox cannot rectify this. > > This will also mean that anyone who has separately licensed ZapfDingbats > (or an equivalent with a restrictive licence) cannot include them in > derivative works of PDFBox. > > The problem would appear to arise from the PDF standard requiring a > copyrighted font. > > P. > > > P. > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 5:31 PM, John Hewson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On 6 Apr 2015, at 08:59, Eric Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > ZapfDingbats should be there, shouldn't have to substitute, as you > > > mentioned. > > > > No, these are not the same issues. PDFBox should always be able to > provide > > ZapfDingbats but that font doesn't ship with Windows, so we need to > > substitute it for Windings on that platform. On the Mac this isn't a > > problem. > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1900 > > > John Hewson > > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jahewson> > > added > > > a comment - 11/Feb/14 00:55 > > > > > > This is a PDFBox bug. Zapf Dingbats is one of the standard 14 fonts > that > > > should always work without being embedded. > > > > > > As mentioned on that bug report, I had actually created this PDF using > > > iText, which doesn't appear to give any way to embed the font. > > > I got a rendering problem on pdfbox trying to read this PDF back in, > > > because this font is not embedded or installed, though Adobe renders it > > > just fine. > > > This will likely come up again someday, though I worked around this for > > > now, since as I mentioned this is a PDF I'm creating. I changed this > > > instance to render to the Graphics using the original object I created > it > > > from instead of reading the PDF after it's created. > > > > > > I will test that ExternalFonts.addSubstitute when I get time, as > another > > > workaround. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > -- > Peter Murray-Rust > Reader in Molecular Informatics > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069 >
