[PDFBOX-1701] Better font than the standard font

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Rendering
• Environment: W7
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
• Created: 20/Aug/13 19:20
• Updated: 30/Aug/14 14:53
• Resolved: 30/Aug/14 14:53

Description

pdfbox\pdfviewer\PageDrawer.java has "Fallback: we can't find anything, so we have to use the standard font" code. However the standard font is a sans serif font. My suggestion is to use several standard fonts, i.e. for monospace, serif, sans serif, symbol, capitals, etc.

I tried it (see patch) on page 1 of the "Bimbo" pdf of PDFBOX-1694, and the result looks better than without the change. (There are still other problems with the next pages, I believe that there is a different cause, maybe similar to the "Elvia" file of PDFBOX-1689).

Issue Links

• is part of: PDFBOX-1959 Remove AWT Fonts