Thank you for the swift response Tilman. Much appreciated. I've passed on your response to my point of contact in our legal department. She asked if you or any other committers would be willing to delete the sensitive TTF file after you're done using it for any sort of troubleshooting or development.
Thanks and Regards, Larry Lynn On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 11:07 AM Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> wrote: > Send it to tilman (at) snafu (dot) de and to other committers who ask > for it. > > Or upload it zipped + encrcypted to a sharehoster and send just the > password to that address. > > Tilman > > Am 13.01.2026 um 18:46 schrieb Larry Lynn via users: > > Hello and happy new year. > > > > We've experienced a text placement issue when creating a PDF with PDFBox > > and using a proprietary font owned by one of our customers. We suspect > > that this issue is related to font embedding and font subsetting. > > We are using PDFBox 3.0.5. > > > > We re-tested using an old version of PDFBox version 2.x. The problem did > > not reproduce. We believe we've found a regression. > > > > We'd like to submit a bug report, but we think that if we raised a Jira > > ticket in the PDFBox system and uploaded the TTF file for the font as an > > attachment to the ticket, that this would essentially redistribute the > font > > to the world at large. We do currently have permission from our customer > > to redistribute the font. We are unaware of any way to reproduce the > issue > > without the TTF. > > > > Does a mechanism exist to share a file privately with the PDFBox library > > maintainers without making it publicly available to everyone on the > > internet? If so, maybe we could send a copy of the TTF of the font > through > > that private channel and still demonstrate bug reproduction. > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Larry Lynn > > > > p.s. We really appreciate all of the great work you've done on the > PDFBox > > library. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- *Larry Lynn* *Staff Software Engineer* *Workiva Inc*. *448 E. Main St, Bozeman, MT, 59715*
