[jira] [Created] (PDFBOX-5432) Use embedded fonts in text annotations

["Laurence Urbain (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Laurence Urbain created PDFBOX-5432:
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             Summary: Use embedded fonts in text annotations
                 Key: PDFBOX-5432
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5432
             Project: PDFBox
          Issue Type: New Feature
    Affects Versions: 2.0.26
            Reporter: Laurence Urbain


Hi,

We are using pdfbox to add text annotations to a pdf document. Now, we need to embed the font used in the annotations to preserve the PDF/A compliance.

Here is the code snippet we use to create the text annotation :
{code:java}
    final PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
    final PDPage page = new PDPage();
    document.addPage(page);

    final PDAnnotationMarkup annotation = new PDAnnotationMarkup();
    annotation.getCOSObject().setName(COSName.SUBTYPE, PDAnnotationMarkup.SUB_TYPE_FREETEXT);
    annotation.setRectangle(new PDRectangle(200, 600, 100, 20));
    annotation.setContents("some text");
    annotation.setPrinted(true);
    annotation.setDefaultAppearance("/Helv 12 Tf 0 g");

    annotation.constructAppearances(document);

    final List<PDAnnotation> annotations = page.getAnnotations();
    annotations.add(annotation);
    page.setAnnotations(annotations);
{code}
It is currently not possible to use an embedded font. From what I can see, _PDFreeTextAppearanceHandler_ is building the annotation's appearance dictionnary based on the annotation's default appearance or the form's default appearance.
The font is then either retrieved by name from the form default resources, or the standard font helvetica is used.

Would it be possible to pass a _PDFont_ object to the annotation/appearanceHandler ?

That way, we could either choose an embedded font, a reference to an existing font (from the page resources for example), or a standard font.

Thanks for your help



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