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  1. PDFBox
  2. PDFBOX-1959

Remove AWT Fonts

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 2.0.0
    • 2.0.0
    • Rendering
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    Description

      Since PDFBOX-1844 added the Type 1 font parser, there is no need to use AWT any more for font rendering. We should remove all calls to AWT string drawing methods.

      However, before we can do this we need to ship a set of standard 14 fonts with PDFBox as currently the system fonts are being used via AWT. We also need to provide a mechanism for the user to supply their own external fonts for cases where embedded fonts are missing.

      The main question is, what fonts should we ship? Some of the "free" fonts I've seen render very poorly, any suggestions? Furthermore, are there fonts under more restrictive licenses which we could ship? Apache does allow for such files to be part of a project under certain conditions.

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          duplicates

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. PDFBOX-2827 PDF to Image - unable to display text of PDFs

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed
          incorporates

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-1809 Embedded Fonts not drawn on Pages BufferedImage

          • Critical - Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-1069 Ubuntu throws exceptions when fonts missing

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-1463 Unreadable fonts on UNIX

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-1689 Partial failure to render PDF

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-1800 Bundled Arial fonts are broken

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-1930 TimesNewRoman font should be substituted

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-835 Font Manager Fails to Set StandardFont

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. PDFBOX-1701 Better font than the standard font

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed
          is depended upon by

          Wish - General wishlist item. PDFBOX-1843 Find a way to test PDFToImage

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Open
          relates to

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. PDFBOX-870 PDF-To-IMAGE output is not anti-aliased

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

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              jahewson John Hewson
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