Font Resource Directories on Unix

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On Unix based machines, the Adobe PDF Library looks for font resources in a few default directories:

/usr/lib/X11/fonts
/usr/local/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
/usr/share/X11/fonts
/usr/share/fonts

To specify a particular directory to look for fonts, please see the *APDFLib::fillDirectories()* method in the Adobe PDF Library sample program InitializeLibrary.cpp.

This sample illustrates how to specify resource paths such as Fonts for Windows, Mac, and Unix. The kPDFLInitIgnoreDefaultDirectories flag can be used to indicate that these default font directories shouldn't be searched.

For more details on APDFL font directory initialization, please refer to the article "Searching Font Resource Directories when Adobe PDF Library Initializes."