> > On 6 Apr 2015, at 09:49, 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.
Yes, but we should be able to map it to a similar font such as Windings (assuming the same glyphs are available). -- John > 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]
