Apache PDFBox: Can I set font other than those present in PDType1Font
java, pdfbox
Solution
You can load truetype fonts like this in Apache PDFBox 2.0.*:
PDType0Font font = PDType0Font.load(document, new File("c:/windows/fonts/simhei.ttf"));
See also the API documentation and the EmbeddedFonts.java example.
Problem
I can see only 4 fonts with variants in PDType1Font. Is there any way I can use other / custom fonts? PDFType1Font fonts ``` public static final PDType1Font TIMES_ROMAN = new PDType1Font("Times-Roman"); public static final PDType1Font TIMES_BOLD = new PDType1Font("Times-Bold"); public static final PDType1Font TIMES_ITALIC = new PDType1Font("Times-Italic"); public static final PDType1Font TIMES_BOLD_ITALIC = new PDType1Font("Times-BoldItalic"); public static final PDType1Font HELVETICA = new PDType1Font("Helvetica"); public static final PDType1Font HELVETICA_BOLD = new PDType1Font("Helvetica-Bold"); public static final PDType1Font HELVETICA_OBLIQUE = new PDType1Font("Helvetica-Oblique"); public static final PDType1Font HELVETICA_BOLD_OBLIQUE = new PDType1Font("Helvetica-BoldOblique"); public static final PDType1Font COURIER = new PDType1Font("Courier"); public static final PDType1Font COURIER_BOLD = new PDType1Font("Courier-Bold"); public static final PDType1Font COURIER_OBLIQUE = new PDType1Font("Courier-Oblique"); public static final PDType1Font COURIER_BOLD_OBLIQUE = new PDType1Font("Courier-BoldOblique"); public static final PDType1Font SYMBOL = new PDType1Font("Symbol"); public static final PDType1Font ZAPF_DINGBATS = new PDType1Font("ZapfDingbats"); ```