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The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents.

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package org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font;

import org.apache.fontbox.FontBoxFont;
import org.apache.fontbox.ttf.TrueTypeFont;

/**
 * Font mapper, locates non-embedded fonts. If you implement this then you're responsible for
 * caching the fonts. SoftReference<FontBoxFont> is recommended.
 *
 * @author John Hewson
 */
public interface FontMapper
{
    /**
     * Finds a TrueType font with the given PostScript name, or a suitable substitute, or null.
     *
     * @param fontDescriptor FontDescriptor
     */
    FontMapping getTrueTypeFont(String baseFont, PDFontDescriptor fontDescriptor);
    
    /**
     * Finds a font with the given PostScript name, or a suitable substitute, or null. This allows
     * any font to be substituted with a PFB, TTF or OTF.
     *
     * @param fontDescriptor the FontDescriptor of the font to find
     */
    FontMapping getFontBoxFont(String baseFont, PDFontDescriptor fontDescriptor);
    
    /**
     * Finds a CFF CID-Keyed font with the given PostScript name, or a suitable substitute, or null.
     * This method can also map CJK fonts via their CIDSystemInfo (ROS).
     * 
     * @param fontDescriptor FontDescriptor
     * @param cidSystemInfo the CID system info, e.g. "Adobe-Japan1", if any.
     */
    CIDFontMapping getCIDFont(String baseFont, PDFontDescriptor fontDescriptor,
                              PDCIDSystemInfo cidSystemInfo);
}