Re: Guidance on fonts in 2.0.1 on Linux

2016-05-11 Thread John Hewson
> On 3 May 2016, at 12:03, Tres Finocchiaro wrote: > > Does 2.0 still support FontMapping.properties? No, that has been removed. PDFBox 2.0 is much smarter about mapping fonts, we discourage custom font mapping because you’re going to get different results from what people using equivalent sys

Re: Guidance on fonts in 2.0.1 on Linux

2016-05-03 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
Does 2.0 still support FontMapping.properties? Besides the unicode limitations you've spoken of, I had great success doing this with 1.8 on Ubuntu to get better support for the free alternative fonts (ended up recompiling myself just to get the file embedded into the JAR). I've linked my sample p

Re: Guidance on fonts in 2.0.1 on Linux

2016-05-03 Thread John Hewson
Hi Jorg, Firstly, I’d recommend embedding TTF fonts in 2.0, using PDType0Font. It works really well and supports Unicode. > We migrated to PDFBox 2.0.1 from 1.8 and have some issues with fonts. We try > not to embed them and trying to use default fonts if possible. > > That worked well in 1.8 b

Guidance on fonts in 2.0.1 on Linux

2016-05-01 Thread Jorg Janke
Hi guys, We migrated to 2.0.1 from 1.8 and have some issues with fonts. We try not to embed them and trying to use default fonts. Could you please check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36970339/pdfbox-2-0-1-how-to-use-standard-fonts-on-amazon-linux Cheers, Jorg Jorg Janke - www.accorto.com