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package org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font;

import java.lang.ref.SoftReference;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
import org.apache.fontbox.FontBoxFont;

/**
 * A cache for system fonts. This allows PDFBox to manage caching for a {@link FontProvider}.
 * PDFBox is free to purge this cache at will.
 *
 * @author John Hewson
 */
public final class FontCache
{
    private final Map<FontInfo, SoftReference<FontBoxFont>> cache =
            new ConcurrentHashMap<FontInfo, SoftReference<FontBoxFont>>();

    /**
     * Adds the given FontBox font to the cache.
     */
    public void addFont(FontInfo info, FontBoxFont font)
    {
        cache.put(info, new SoftReference<FontBoxFont>(font));
    }

    /**
     * Returns the FontBox font associated with the given FontInfo.
     */
    public FontBoxFont getFont(FontInfo info)
    {
        return cache.get(info).get();
    }
}

@@ -1679,36 +1679,121 @@
     
-return cache.get(info).get()
+SoftReference%3CFontBoxFont%3E reference = cache.get(info);%0A        return reference != null ? reference.get() : null
 ;%0A  

Check for item in cache before dreferencing it