Actually this mapping won't work quite yet, as MS Gothic is a TrueType Collection (.ttc) and we don't support that format. I'm adding necessary code to FontBox right now...
-- John > On 8 Apr 2015, at 14:23, John Hewson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I checked out MS Gothic and it’s perfect. The symbols are almost identical to > Zapf Dingbats, and it has all the glyphs we need. > > I’ve replaced the Arial Unicode MS mapping with MS Gothic in PDFBOX-1900. > This change will be in the next snapshot build. Please try it out. > > — John > >> On 8 Apr 2015, at 13:14, John Hewson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Ok, I think I’ve found a suitable substitute font, MS Gothic ships with >> Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 and has complete Unicode Dingbats coverage: >> >> https://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1269 >> >> See http://www.fonts.com/font/microsoft-corporation/ms-gothic/regular for >> Dingbats coverage, click “Character Map” and select “2700…27BF Dingbats”. >> >> — John >> >>>> On 8 Apr 2015, at 13:07, John Hewson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 8 Apr 2015, at 11:22, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Am 08.04.2015 um 20:05 schrieb Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>>> Am 08.04.2015 um 19:59 schrieb Eric Douglas: >>>>>> Where are you getting the Arial Unicode MS? >>>>> >>>>> C:\windows\fonts\ARIALUNI.TTF >>>> >>>> we might be able to find a suitable font to be distributed with PDFBox >>>> such as Noto [1] which is ASL licensed (at least that's what they state) >>>> and they have a symbol font [2]. Would need to check the mappings. >>> >>> Yes, but first we should check if a suitable font ships with Windows, as >>> other PDF viewers on the system are likely to be using it already. We don’t >>> want PDFBox to unnecessarily be using a non-platform font. >>> >>> The glyph list for ZapfDingbats can be found here: >>> >>> https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/blob/trunk/pdfbox/src/main/resources/org/apache/pdfbox/resources/glyphlist/zapfdingbats.txt >>> >>> The format of the entires is: >>> >>> a100;275E >>> >>> Which corresponds to a glyph named “a100” with Unicode code point U+275E. >>> >>> — John >>> >>> >>>> [1] http://www.google.com/get/noto/#/family/noto-sans >>>> [2] http://www.google.com/get/noto/#/family/noto-sans-zsym >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
