[PDFBOX-517] PD Fonts do not attempt to load from the environment if an embed font cannot be loaded

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0-incubator
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0-incubator
• Component/s: PDModel
• Environment: Java
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Antony Scerri
• Created: 08/Sep/09 13:07
• Updated: 21/Oct/09 09:52
• Resolved: 13/Sep/09 15:03

Description

When one of the PD Font classes such as PDTrueTypeFont.java attempt to load embeded fonts (through AWT) which fail it simply resorts to using the standard font. In my instance an ebeded TrueType font did not contain a "name" table and so AWT failed to load it (not sure if thats an error in the PDF font or AWTs handling).

Instead it should probably check to see if a matching font is available from the environment first. In conjunction with the fix in PDFBox-516 this has a much better chance of identifying and using the correct font for processing the streams contents. Attached is a patch for PDTrueTypeFont.java to demonstrate such a fix (this does not include any additional logging if it fails to find one from the environment as its a case of attempting to fix an already broken situation so doesnt really warrant it).