Here's what I could find, it appears Adobe shipped Zapfdingbats (and other fonts) with Acrobat Reader up to about version 5 or 6. Now they'll display Zapfdingbats characters using the Zapfdingbats font if you have that font installed (apparently not free, unless you can copy it out of an old Adobe Reader install?), otherwise they display the characters out of the Adobe Pi Std, which appears to be a grand mash of multiple fonts. You can find that font in the Adobe install folder and install the font to Windows. Then you can view that font in the "Character Map" app which tells us there's various check mark characters, one of them is U+2713. I'm not sure the licensing, but I would think if you can't ship Zapfdingbats Type 1 font with an open source application that renders PDFs, you should be able to include the Adobe Pi Std because it doesn't make sense to say those 14 fonts are part of the PDF standard then make people pay to use them. If not? There should be some other free distributable replacement.
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 06.04.2015 um 21:16 schrieb Eric Douglas: > >> 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 >> > > Yes, because the viewer must have the font available. I found the font in > a very old installation of Acrobat Reader. I can't find it in the current > one, I assume it is hidden somehow. > > Tilman > > > >> 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 >>> >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
