POI - Importing new fonts to the POI

Question

How can i import a new font to POI API with extensions ttf & otf , without install these fonts into the environment ?

Is there a jar that i should update it with the path of the new font ?

I have updated my answer. Please take a look: maybe you can use embedded object. — rdllopes, Mar 17 '14 at 12:27
Do you mean you want to embed a font into an existing file, so it's somehow available when someone loads the file on a machine without the font, or do you mean to make the font available to Java so POI can correctly calculate font sizes? — Gagravarr, Mar 17 '14 at 15:15
Yess, I want the put the file somewhere that make once the jar of the project installed in any environment no need to install the font first — User, Mar 17 '14 at 15:24

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

You cannot add fonts... You can think your (office) files just like HTML. Font lives outside the document. You just set the font name, family, etc.

However, someone has already tried to do that. Using embedded files, you could add font files.

Link:

It is far from easy. There's no easy way to insert embedded files.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 21 '19 at 21:19

In the meantime I've implemented an API to embed the fonts easily. This version goes live with POI 4.1.0.

POI can't consume .ttf/.otf directly, but needs some help from googles sfntly. My demo project can be found under github/poi-font-mbender.

I won't provide a copy & paste of the sample class as you also need the rest of the sfntly library, which is not available as maven artifact.

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